On 2017-07-26 13:37, 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.

What is the YAG naming convention? lcName, ldDue, or is it more

CamelCase like DateDue?

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