Re: [Amforth] CVARIABLE

[Michael K. <mi-...@t-...>]

Hi.

What about mnemonic conventions like

   .s  .r  .line  ." xxx"

or

key?  ?DO

and such? Don't we already use such "unwritten laws"?

Michael




Am 21.03.2013 um 21:24 schrieb Enoch:

> Matthias Trute <mt...@we...> writes:
>
>> Hi Wis,
>>
>>> It may be a good practice to prefix any "cvariable" name with a
>>> mnemonic string (e.g., "c_") to help avoid the troublesome behavior
>>
>> IIRC it is called Hungarian Notation. I'll add a link
>> to the wikipedia article to the recipe.
>
> But Leo Brodie is defintely not Hungarian :-)
> He writes about Choosing Names: The Art
> Choose names according to “what,” not “how”
>
> "But good names are essential for readability. Moreover, the mental
> exercise of summoning a one-word description bears a synergistic  
> effect
> on your perceptions of what the entity should or should not do."
>
> Let's leave the Hungarian method to Microsoft, where it was  
> invented. It
> is an essential evil when managing large projects though.
>
> Regards, Enoch.
>
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