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RE: a useful naming convention

• To: "'Bryan Rasmussen'" <bry@i...>,<jim.fuller@r...>
• Subject: RE: a useful naming convention
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:47:39 +0100
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> "In Simonyi's version of 
> Hungarian notation, every
> variable was prefixed with a lower case tag that indicated 
> the kind of thing
> that the variable contained. "

I have always regarded that with horror, but it's a matter of personal
taste.

Names are there to identify objects, not to contain all the properties of
the object. Don't try to pack them with bit-significant meaning; apart from
anything else, you don't want to change the name of something when its
properties change.

The main debate about naming is the scope of uniqueness of a name. Should
the title of a chapter have the same element name as the title of a section?


As far as the internal syntax of a name is concerned, the only important
thing is to try and be consistent: use hyphens or underscores or camelCase,
but not all three interchangeably.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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