Hungarian Notation

Paddy paddy3118 at googlemail.com
Tue May 27 03:43:18 EDT 2008


On May 27, 7:42 am, "inhahe" <inh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I just need it once in a while.  Actually now is the only time I
> remember.  The last time what I needed was a file name extension.  I want a
> string called headers, but I want to derive a dict from it, also called
> headers.  So I figured the string would be called strHeaders, and the dict,
> dctHeaders probably, but when a precedent for something like that exists, I
> like to use it.
>
> "Kam-Hung Soh" <kamhung.... at gmail.com> wrote in message

I have a my own sometime used convention od using dict names that
mirror
what is being mapped to what, so a dict mapping headers to body might
be called head2body, in general a mapping from x to y I might call
x2y.

- Paddy.



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