Naming Conventions

[esgici]

Can anyone suggest a compelling reason to use single or double quotes for string values?

If not what do most Clipper\HMG programmers use?

I guess no any compulsion.

Only when need string into string

Do you know, we have another (at least) one string delimiter : [ ]

Regards

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Esgici

[Rathinagiri]

Can anyone suggest a compelling reason to use single or double quotes for string values?

If not what do most Clipper\HMG programmers use?

I guess no any compulsion.

Only when need string into string

Do you know, we have another (at least) one string delimiter : [ ]

Regards

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Esgici

This one is new to me.

[Rathinagiri]

Thanks a lot for a nice topic.

Previously I used my own naming conventions ie., no naming convention at all.

Now I had started using,

cChar
nNumeric
lLogic
dDate
aArray

[esgici]

Hi Rathi

Good decision

Since you are in a starting point, please try three letter prefix ( type + scope ). May be fatiguing at beginning, but after a short time surely you will be addicted because of its benefits.

Regards

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Esgici

[melliott42]

after a short time surely you will be addicted because of its benefits.

Oh yes!

For large projects there is no other way to maintain your code too!

I am at a re-starting place and found it a good time to re-evaluate what conventions I use and why. Esgicia and others here always give such insightful advice. A few words from them can save us all many hours of coding.

[cdsaenz]

As rathinagiri said, I prefer the Hungarian notation.
a = Array
b = Block
c = Character
d = Date
l = Logic
n = Numeric
o = Object

And h = hash?

[esgici]

As rathinagiri said, I prefer the Hungarian notation.
a = Array
b = Block
c = Character
d = Date
l = Logic
n = Numeric
o = Object

And h = hash?

Agreeable (including "h")

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Esgici

[cdsaenz]

I really have to play around with hashes. They're so nice.

[esgici]

Could you give a SSW ;(

Saludos

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Esgici

[swapan]

Could you give a SSW ;(

Saludos

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Esgici

I started with prefixing "m" to a variable e.g.:
amount = mamount
name = mname

later adopted the hungarian style
amount = nAmount
name = cName

During Vb6 and. .NET, used:

prefixing with the control names.
name =txtName (textbox control)

Great to know Rathi's style (no conventions)! Never came this "idea", as I learnt to add "m" to memory variables from seniors during learning days of programming!