Re: Hungarian notation

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From: Joachim Durchholz
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 09:39

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andy@wndrwrks.demon.co.uk wrote 05.01.96 on Re: Hungarian notation:

> In article <4cd8fc$oud@news.manawatu.gen.nz>, Chris Tutty
> <ctutty@manawatu.gen.nz> writes
>
> Consider also that variable names may be misleading anyway. In that
> sense there's no great difference between
>
>         someProc(MyString)
>
> and
>
>         someProc(pszMyString)
>
> either could quite happily refer to any other data type.
>

This example does not occur in real life. Or rather, it better should not!
Anybody using meaningless names like "MyString" should be thrown out of  
the programming business. Depending on the actual semantics of "someProc",  
the parameter should be called "Message" or "Options" or "ParserInput" or  
whatever.

-Joachim

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Date: 06 Jan 1996 10:39:00 +0100
From: jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz)
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