RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-09 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/08 10:25 -0400, Jerry Schwartz I was a reluctant convert, and still don't use Hungarian notation consistently; but in something like MS Access, where you might want to associate a label with a field, things like "lblCompany" and "txtCompany" make a lot of sense. I forg

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-08 Thread Hal�sz S�ndor
2011/08/08 00:13 -0600, Mike Diehl Well, I can see this being useful in assembly language, or strongly-typed, non-OO languages. But I was asking specifically about SQL! We know from context that customers is a table and it makes no sense at all to prefix a type to it in order to

RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-08 Thread Jerry Schwartz
bytesmiths.com; mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] > > >Jan- >the upside is you dont have to look up a variable to know what type it is: >zVariable is Null termed string >bVariable is boolean >nVariable is an Integer >fVariable is

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread Mike Diehl
On Saturday 06 August 2011 10:58:43 am Jan Steinman wrote: > > From: Johnny Withers > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation Well, I can see this being useful in assembly language, or strongly-typed, non-OO languages. But I was asking specifically about SQL! When will this EVER

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread David Lerer
y Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Sun Aug 07 19:03:43 2011 Subject: Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases] I despise this sort of notation, and have instead adopted what have cheerfully named Hungarian Suffix notation, the reason being Signal-To-Noise ratio. Instead of prefacing everything

Re: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-07 Thread Arthur Fuller
I despise this sort of notation, and have instead adopted what have cheerfully named Hungarian Suffix notation, the reason being Signal-To-Noise ratio. Instead of prefacing everything with some form of prefix, just do the opposite: Customer_tbl Customer_Dead_boo Customer_DOB_date Customer_qs (that

RE: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]

2011-08-06 Thread Martin Gainty
Jan- the upside is you dont have to look up a variable to know what type it is: zVariable is Null termed string bVariable is boolean nVariable is an Integer fVariable is a float dVariable is a double.. cVariable is a char Martin __ easy peasy..Shawsha