hm. that age_str is not an age_string, its just an input string. you have to validate then if it really represents an age..

std::string userInput;std::cin >> userInput;int age;try {    age = boost::lexical_cast(userInput);} catch(boost::bad_lexical_cast& /*or something similar?!*/) {    // its a long time i''ve coded in c++, sorry..    std::cout<<"You''ve entered an invalid age!!\n";} 

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Everybody bashing clean notation?
c''mon - it''s just a helper. Reading code using pre-/suf-fixes shouldnt make much difference to people not using them, and can be very helpful to people using them.

My selection:

// Standard typesfloat fFloat;bool bBool;void* pPointer;void (*pfnFunctionPointer)(int,float);int nNumberOfElements; /* Used for keeping track of number of elements in an array, for example */int iIndexIntoAnArray;int dStandardInteger;int m_dStupidMemberInteger;// Constructsclass pfx_Class{};struct pfx_Struct{};enum pfx_XXXXType{}; 

pfx_ is actually the prefix for all engine constructs - yeah, i know a namespace would be nicer...but...anyways
No special prefix for interfaces, btw
I use enumerations almost exclusively for enumerating types - thats why they are suffixed with ''Type''
e.g.
enum pfx_XmlNodeType {...};

*waiting_to_be_flamed*

i just don''t see any use for it. code is more clean when it only contains what is really needed to identify what it does. types are unimportant for that..

and s8++ doesn''t normally show that its an overflow. thats no help.

people still typing their variables don''t get that their code should be typeless. algorithms and concepts work, no mather really what sort of type they use.

just learn to use templates, and voilà, you''ll drop all the prefixes..

template max(a,b) { if(a > b) return a; return b; } 

you can''t prefix those variables at all. (oh, and, yeah, _THAT_ would be cool template syntax, not?:D)

as i code a lot of code split from types, so that i can easily remap it to other types, and only change minor interface changes, i have about no use for prefixes. i would only have to change them all the time anyways.



they are useless. you manually restrict your code to things that don''t mather.



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