Yes. It''s simply lets you see at a glance that something is the name of a class, as opposed to a struct, typedef, or anything else.

You look over your code with your eyes faster than you move your mouse. That''s the reason for notation. Besides there is a small delay when you place the cursor and the type text appears.

I usually go with Hungarian notation to some extent. The scope indicators are very useful, primarily m and g.

I sometimes also use Quake style naming conventions, particularly when I''m working on Quake engine derived code like Half Life. Most of half life is also written in this Hungarian-Carmackian notation style. The Quake, or Carmackian style of naming is:
An enum is enumname_e
A struct is structname_t
a union is unionname_u
And there''s nothing for classes, cause I''ve never seen classes in Quake code.

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Just use what you find best. I have my own coding standards which i find easy to understand (and are a pain in the arse for some ppl because i used to be a vb programer).

If i was writing a program that heaps of people would be looking at the source code i would however use a coding standard like this (but i dont see that happening anytime soon).

#define BLOODY_WORK_THIS_TIME;

quote:Original post by Oluseyi
Besides, as code evolves type notations often become untrue (see WPARAM/LPARAM and DWORD).

The exact same logic could be used as a reason not to comments. Just reread your previous statement and replace "type notations" with "comments" and you''ll see what I mean. However, that doesn''t mean you shouldn''t use comments, or HN.

quote:Original post by Oluseyi
Use comments and descriptive variable names. That''s what they''re there for.

Although this generally works in most cases, it doesn''t always work. Tell me what type a variable called OrderNumber is. Is it an int, unsigned int, string? You can''t tell from the variable name.

Also, it''s important to note that enabling Browse Info in VC6 can increase your compile time dramatically in large projects (Ok, at least it was dramatic in VC5, I haven''t recompiled our work project with VC6 or VC7 to test improvements on this). It already takes 30 minutes to do a full compile on our project at work (on a 1GHz Pentium computer) and that''s without using Browse Info.

Oh, and browse info does no good when you''re looking at a hard copy of your code (printout), reading from a book, etc.


However, I''m not saying I disagree with you, Oluseyi. Like you, I don''t use Hungarian Notation either. My point is just that it isn''t a black and white issue, there are both pros and cons for using or not using HN.


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