| Re: Is there any conventions style programming IDL? [message #39088 is a reply to message #39086] |
Fri, 23 April 2004 10:56   |
Dick Jackson
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Registered: August 1998
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"Michael Wallace" <mwallace_spam@spam.swri.edu.invalid> wrote in message
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> Dick Jackson wrote:
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>> Mike Schienle has this available on the web:
>> http://www.customvisuals.com/IDL_Style.html
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> This document combined with a couple of tips from David make a good
set
> of rules to follow. There are a couple things I think I'll adopt into
> my personal style. However, I have to disagree with the use of
> Hungarian notation. IDL is a weakly-typed, dynamic language and
> enforcing Hungarian rules removes some of the benefits of such a
> language. I don't have the time now to get into the details, but I
see
> it as more of a hindrance rather than a help.
>
> Hungarian notation is not suited to weakly-typed dynamic languages
such
> as IDL, Python or Perl or object-oriented languages such as Java or
C++.
> Hungarian notation does have it's place in the strongly-typed
> procedural languages like good ol' C. I actually use Hungarian
notation
> a lot when doing C -- it makes casting and variable type mistakes so
> much easier to catch.
>
> -Mike
For those who are wondering (like I was) "Hungarian Notation" refers to
what Mike Schienle suggests, as in:
Variables of type Byte shall begin with the letter "b"
A full description of this and other aspects of naming identifiers is
this article at Microsoft's MSDN site:
http://tinyurl.com/ezmr
I agree with Mike Wallace in general, but I find it useful to identify
two kinds of identifiers in special ways: objects and pointers. I do
this since we work with them in ways quite different from the other
types. For example, when I see variable pInfo, the 'p' reminds me that I
need to dereference with '*' before using the thing itself.
Just my CAD 0.02 (two Canadian cents' worth)
Cheers,
--
-Dick
Dick Jackson / dick@d-jackson.com
D-Jackson Software Consulting / http://www.d-jackson.com
Calgary, Alberta, Canada / +1-403-242-7398 / Fax: 241-7392
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