opinions on hungary notation

[Richard Bos]

The mindless type prefixing yes. I was under the impression that the
hungarian type prefixing was seen as pretty useless nowadays but at work
people want to introduce a coding guideline that forces us to use hungarian.
I pointed them to joel´s article already but it didnt convince them. Are
there actual advantages to using hungarian?

A couple of years or so ago you would have been Mickeysoft-compliant,
but even that is no longer true. _Even_ Microsoft seem to have kicked
the Hungarian illness.

Richard

 

[Richard Bos]

I wonder if there are lint-like tools that check for consistent
Hungarian notation.

Possibly, but they'd need considerable help.

Richard

 

[Richard Bos]

That's called "camel hump." I alternate between loving and hating it
(currently set to hating).

Personally, I'm funny this way[1]: I tend to use underscores in
identifiers which start with a lower case letter or which are all-caps,
but CamelCasing in identifiers which are underscore but start with a
capital. Usually, that's almost all normal ones plus macros for
underscores, and only enum members and typedefs for CamelCase.

Richard

[1] Yes, you at the back, I know. No need to comment; we all know what
you wanted to say already.