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Re: Derek's naming convention for variables

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?ho?.com> Jul 22, 2007
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Alex Caracatsanis wrote:
> 
> Reading through various people's code recently, prompted me to ask about
> Derek's convention for naming variables.
>     pVar refers to a parameter variable - yes?
>     lVar refers to a local variable?
>     vVar would refer to ??
>     I guess there's gVar for a global variable?
> 
> Are there others?
> 
> Secondly: What's the difference between a local and a private variable?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Alex Caracatsanis

I should let Derek answer this, but I've bookmarked the page where he discusses
it:
http://www.openeuphoria.org/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=6&fromYear=1&toMonth=2&toYear=B&postedBy=derek+parnell&keywords=%22naming+convention%22

I like it, but my preference would be for local variables to be undecorated.
Plus when I see 'p' I think of "pointer to".

I haven't adopted it myself, but I still like it.
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--anonymous
"Any performance problem can be solved by removing a level of indirection."
--M. Haertel
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--C.A.R. Hoare
j.