Hungarian Notation

Well Now,

I don''t, at least I don''t rember using it...


STVOY

Mega Moh Mine!!

Hungarian notation is in my opinion outright stupid. Why use it? It just add redundant information that your IDE might as well give you automatically (I know MVC++ can) and makes you code unreadable.

If you like spaghetti, though, it is great.

Jacob Marner

oh god...not another one

i like hungarian notation...but most of the time i dont use it
because if i just hold the mouse over or click a variable it shows me the decleration

HN is the nastiest stuff i have ever seen.

I agree that HN is ugly and makes things hard to read. However, I do use a prefix letter for variables that let me know whether the variable is local (l), parameter (p), or class member (m). That way you know where the variable is coming from.

For a while I used to put the type of whatever my variable was, such as RectanglePtr or NameArr, but found it too be easier to rely on the type by context - so that now everything looks like pSphere, lCylinder, or mFilename. Otherwise things tend to look like all kinds of acronyms that takes a few seconds just to decode in your head (and programmers have enough going on in their head as it is...).

I used to be a big advocate of Hungarian, but after listening to the arguments against it, using it extensively, and trying out other styles, I decided to drop it. I still use some elements of it, but I''ve dropped the prefixes.

Well, as of now I use semi-hungarian notation. Let me explain:
If it''s a member variable, it''s prefixed with "m_".
If it''s a global variable, it''s prefixed with "g_".
Local variables have no prefix.
After that prefix is a second prefix (usually.)
The second prefix is "n" for integers, "p" for pointers, "sz" for strings, but no prefix is used for complex data types (except I sometimes use "vec" and "mat" for vectors and matrices, respectively.)
Does that count?

lntakitopi@aol.com - http://www.geocities.com/guanajam