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Re: Convention versus standard

• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• To: "Fraser Goffin" <goffinf@g...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:31 +0200

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
>>
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