Thread: Hungarian Notation

What would they have called it had the guy been an American?

rick barclay

>It's a code. A standard. You don't have to follow it, but if all
in your team do, it really speeds up debugging.

that i agree with... if i didn't have consistent naming conventions for all my stuff, i'd be lost...

Obviously you have a different idea of what Hungarian notation is than I do. I am okay with putting a "p" in front of variables to tell that they are pointers, an "h" for handles, etc...that is useful.

I consider it Hungarian notation when the programmer names a variable in a completely useless, non-sensible, jibberish way.

Example:

int ___mf__J_mInt___;


What is the deal with all the underscores! They arent needed! Just create an explanatory name, for example:

int FrameCount;

OR:

int *pFrameCount;

stuff like that.

So my idea of Hungarian notation is when variables are named in a completely non-sensible way, not when they have little prefixes. Prefixes help in countless ways at some times.

>All the variable names in Windows land use what is called Hungarian notation. The name came from its inventos, Charles Simonyi, a now legendary Microsoft programmer who happened to be hungarian.. <

Yes he discovered that if the cap locks is on and he hits shift it will print lower case.

Ex Caps Locks w/o shift
CAPITALS

Ex Caps Locks w/ shift
lowercase.

Just in case your are wondering all the programmers keyboard at microsoft have had the caps lock key locked and unable to change from caps lock.

Hear of Polish Notation?

Highlight this message to see the answer:
The method of writing all operators either before their operands, or after them. Named Polish Notation after mathematician Jan Lukasiewicz.

>What would they have called it had the guy been an American?

hehe... Mut Notation???

evenflow, kudos... you got the wrong color because of the incorrect guesswork of the post_in_thread_number % 2 expression... maybe someone posted whilst you posted? niice...

So my idea of Hungarian notation is when variables are named in a completely non-sensible way, not when they have little prefixes. Prefixes help in countless ways at some times.

This:

int ___mf__J_mInt___;


Is in no way hungarian. Maybe they do this in hungary, but
I doubt it. This is just gibberish.

int FrameCount;

hungarian notation for normal variable:

int nFrameCount;

hungarian notation for member variable:

int m_nFrameCount;

Before you try to judge something, get at least
some basic infos on it please. People using double
underscores are crucified on spot, for double underscores
are used by compiler specific implementations ONLY.
And NO variable ever ends with underscores.
The variable name should not have underscores either
( exceptions: constants that are all capitals ), so that
leaves us with exactly ONE underscore maximum IF
it is a member variable of a class.

oh... in accord with nv...

>So my idea of Hungarian notation is when variables are named in a completely non-sensible way,

well if that was what it was, then everyone here would hate hungarian notation...