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It is common practice for programmers to name variables in numerous non-helpful ways, it is best practice to have a well thought out naming scheme that allows those who maintain code to know what a variable is to be used for, hopefully achievable by following the coding styles for their languages and organizations, and it is a convention just to use some form of camel casing and a generally unhelpful hint as to what data type the variable is when in the process of naming the variable in a non-helpful way. Note that this definition is somewhat unfair to convention, as it shows the bad usage of convention. But I think it is better to focus on the bad usage of convention then to imply that convention is best. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Fraser Goffin <goffinf@g...> wrote: > I agree. Perhaps it would be better to use the terms 'COMMON practice' > and 'BEST practice' rather than 'convention' (the association seems > more intuitive as does the distinction) ? > > Fraser. > > 2008/7/21 Liam Quin <liam@w...>: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:04:09PM -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote: >>> Is a convention the same thing as a best practice? >> No, not in general. Things that are "usually done" or that are >> done by most people are not necessarily the best way to do >> things or even good things to do. >> >> Liam >> >> -- >> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ >> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> >> XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS >> to support XML implementation and development. To minimize >> spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. >> >> [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ >> Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... >> subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... >> List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ >> List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >> >> > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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