Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer From: Andreas Leitgeb Subject: Re: Call by Result References: Reply-To: avl@logic.at User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-111 (Linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 2011 10:29:25 GMT Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at X-Trace: 1308047365 tunews.univie.ac.at 5640 128.130.175.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tuwien.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5299 Peter Duniho wrote: > On 6/12/11 4:07 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >> I guess, even the "Sz" is just the Hungarian(language) version of a >> plain "S"(which in Hungarian language would be pronounced like "sh" >> if not followed by a "z"). > One should never confuse the actual Hungarian language with anything > found in the Hungarian naming convention. The human language has > absolutely nothing to do with the convention. > > As "markspace" says, "sz" simply means a null(zero)-terminated string. > The "st" tag means a Pascal-style string. Thanks to you and markspace for correcting my misbelief. In Java, there's of course no need to distinguish those ancient(*haha*) string-variants, so St and Sz as prefixes wouldn't make sense here. > As for which has more fans, I have no idea. But since the "Systems" > variant is so awful and useless, I would guess it has very few fans. > And that's probably the one you're describing as "the MS-variant". I was once "contaminated" when programming some C++ under WfW 3.11. Although I try to avoid Windows wherever possible (out of my experience/ taste, not out of "religion"), I do sometimes name a local variable like bIsSnaFu, rather than just isSnaFu. Also, my classes' fields not rarely have an "m_" prefix, and sometimes even a one-lc-letter type-code if it helps to convey the form of representation (e.g. decimal string versus int) used at that spot. I tend to see it as having further evolved from original HN in the same way as e.g. Italic has evolved from Latin.. > The > people who continue to voluntarily use Hungarian (and there are few > remaining) surely are using the original, which is actually useful and > meaningful. And I'd bet, it's just a question of personal taste than anything else. > So on that basis, I have to doubt your doubt. :) I do *not* doubt your doubt on my doubt, but don't share it, either :-)