noob question

Reinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Mon Jun 27 08:25:02 EDT 2005


Alan Gauld wrote:

> The only place I've ever found Hungarian notation useful was
> in C which is a weird mix of static typing and no-typing,
> and there the prefix code gives a clue as to what kind of
> value you might expect to find. But when I moved to C++ I
> dropped the prefixes because they added no value.

> In Python Hungarian notation is meaningless since variables
> aren't typed anyway.

Unfortunately, the original concept of Hungarian is often misunderstood,
as shown by the article pointed out by Konstantin.

Reinhold



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