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On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:52:01 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:27:38 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
> 
>> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>>>What is the ?best? way to use this? I normally only use it when
>>>necessary. (A function has a parameter with the same name.) But at the
>>>company I am working there are people who say you should use it always.
>> 
>>   If the people are your boss (lead programmer or some such), you
>>   should use it always.
>>
> That depends whether your boss is a bozo. Example: on one project where
> I was technical lead, the Programming Manager issued a fairly sensible
> coding spec (including the use of meaningful variable and function
> names,
> e.g. maxvalue for a limiting int value and search_namelist() for a
> function that searched for a match and returned a pointer to the
> matching namestring or NULL, and then went off on holiday for two weeks.
> Meanwhile we got stuck in and wrote/unit tested the system's
> infrastructure code, naturally adhering to the coding spec.
> 
> Project Manager can back and immediately issued a new coding spec he'd
> evidently written while on holiday. This mandated - bloody Hungarian
> Notation. This standard would have required that int to be called
> iMaxvalue and the search function to be called psNamelist and, apart
s/psNamelist/psSearchNamelist/

> from making code less readable, means that what should be trivial
> changes like replacing an int with a long or a double with a float,
> would require all references to those variable to be hunted down and
> their names changed.
> 
> The bozo had heard that coding specs can never be changed once code
s/had heard/had not heard/

> exists. His reaction, once we'd pointed out how much code would need
> changing and retesting, was to effectively drive a truck through any and
> all coding standards by saying that existing code didn't need to be
> changed but all code written after then had to use Hungarian notation.
> 
> May $codingDeity protect you from ever having to work for such an idiot.

Apologies for the typos.


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