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Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
> > 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
 
One hopes you just missed the point here. Hungarian notation does not attempt
to help you keep track of _what_ your variable is, it gives you a framework 
to keep track of what _kind_ of variable it is. One would also note that 
someProc is not a very descriptive name, but so what? In the first example, I
have _no_ clue what type of variable MyString is, although I could probably 
deduce that it is a string. In the second example, the prefix tells me that 
it is a Pointer to a Zero terminated String. 

-- Mike --

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