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Title: variable naming conventions
Post by: Rsir on August 30, 2009, 04:42:14 PM

Looking for the rules to name variables, etc.
And understand what variables are doing by reading their names.

I googled < api assembly naming conventions >

but still no fast usable result.
trying to understand the purpose of the variables in the win32api helpfile,
Hungarian notation is insufficient and seems also a bit out of date.

does anyone know a link to a clear explanation?

Title: Re: variable naming conventions
Post by: dedndave on August 30, 2009, 05:31:04 PM

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260976(VS.60).aspx

http://web.mst.edu/~cpp/common/hungarian.html

there are many others - just google "Hungarian notation"
can you give an example that isn't documented in those places ?

it may be helpful to understand that the conventions were born in a world of C programmers
i.e. C coding documentation may be a good place to look

Title: Re: variable naming conventions
Post by: Tedd on August 30, 2009, 10:25:54 PM

Also, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378932%28VS.85%29.aspx

Title: Re: variable naming conventions
Post by: dedndave on August 30, 2009, 11:06:27 PM

i did some poking around and found this one...
http://www.byteshift.de/msg/hungarian-notation-doug-klunder
a little better - lol

Title: Re: variable naming conventions
Post by: Rsir on August 31, 2009, 06:38:16 PM

Thanks, Tedd, dedndave,
That was what I was looking for.

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