On Feb 22, 12:39 am, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: > The point of style conventions is to make things easier, not provoke > arguments.
It succeeds at both. > There is, however, NEGATIVE benefit -- actual harm, from the Hungarian > Notation you find in Microsoft's code, which redundantly encodes the > PHYSICAL datatype in every usage, impeding maintenance, and often > leading to variables declared one way but named a different way. This article is interesting (skip down to "I'm Hungary"): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html He posits that the notation was created for different *kinds* of things, not different *types* of things. For example, a pixel offset could be window-relative or layout-relative, and you'd use a different prefix on the variable name to keep yourself (or others reading your code) from mixing them up. The use of redundant prefixes evolved out of a misunderstanding of what the original proponent meant by "type". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
