RE: [binarycloud-dev] my $.02 on variable naming conventions

[Andreas A. <a.a...@th...>]

Hi


1.) Variable and method names: mixed case with lower case leading, with
leading or trailing underscores to signify private or global.

> e.g. $userName seems to be favored and $_userName for a local and
> "private" variables, $userName_ for global and for "public".

I'm with you. But there is still the problem with the extra namespace for
variables from the outside. So with the underscore there is a clear
distinction between globals from the outsite $myName_ (passed in the url via
script.php?myName.=value) and "internal" globals like $myName.
On the other hand we have a "namespace" for varibales that are, and
functions that should be considered as privat: $_privateName and
_privateMethod();.
So I would only use the leading "_" for private methods/vars and the
trailing "_" for globals from the outside. Possibly a good solution I think
(and there are not to many _'s than prepending or appending to each and
every variable/mehtod).


Andi