hungarian notation is evil (was Re: Do I always have to write "self." ?)

Cliff Crawford cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu
Fri May 5 13:48:45 EDT 2000


* James Logajan <JamesL at Lugoj.Com> menulis:
| 
| In dynamically typed languages or in C++ templates I think it can actually
| be misleading. Come to think of it, if you want to declare anything evil, I
| think you should declare C++ templates evil. Another case where Python got
| it right (EVERYTHING in Python is a sort of template!).

I like how C++ templates are Turing complete.  That means trying to
determine whether or not a C++ program will even compile is equivalent
to the Halting Problem.


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