In Fox I do scope, type, name in camel case.

So

lcTaxCode

lnTaxRate

llFlag

gcApplicationName

goLogger

...and so forth.

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Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, at 06:37 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote:

> I was reading a chapter on 'Meaningful Names' in the book "Clean Code" by

> Robert C. Martin last night and right after he made a big point of using

> "Intention-Revealing Names" ie: make the name of a variable, procedure or

> function reflect its use, he then takes the opportunity to trash the

> Hungarian Notation system (and by extension I suppose any similar naming

> convention, including the YAlan Griver convention) saying that with

> today's

> strongly typed variables, notation like this is useless and should be

> avoided.

>

>

>

> Quite frankly, it hacked me off as I've spent the better part of 25 years

> learning and becoming disciplined enough to use the YAG naming convention

> as

> well as I could in FoxPro and I've used the same naming convention

> regardless of the language or its strongly typed variables because it

> works

> for me.

>

>

>

> In my world, any roadmap or breadcrumbs I can leave myself for future

> maintenance and standardization is a good thing.

>

>

>

> Thoughts?

>

>

>

> Paul H. Tarver

> Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.

>

> Email: <mailto:paul@tpcqpc.com> paul@tpcqpc.com

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