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In article <30EF0415.6FE1@tus.ssi1.com>, Mike Palmer <Mike.Palmer@tus.ssi1.com> writes:
> 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. 

How often do you use NON-ZERO terminated strings??? HN is
useless garbage in C++, or for ANSI C compilers.

HN is for rank amatuers IMHO, or Micro$oft employees :)
BTW, how *do* you do HN in c++???

-Garret

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