Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > Well it will probably be negligible, but are you planning to name your > tables A,B,C,D,E etc...? > > You will be in the same boat of any naming convention unless you only want > tables names A,B,C or, AA, BB, CC or even AAA, BBB,CCC etc... ;-)
I think his point is that tbl- doesn't add any extra benefit in recognisablity, and only means more typing. I'd have to say I'd agree. <rant type="gentle" subject="Poor use of Hungarian Notation"> Ditto on the VB-style "Hungarian Notation" that a lot of people use, which kind of misses the point of what Simonyi was trying to make, which is to mark the semantic type rather than the physical type. This is less necessary in a language with strong typing or safe types such as Lisp, Python, ML, and Java than a weakly-typed language like C. Weak, unsafe types in C are the reason why Hungarian Notation was invented. But Visual Basic came along, and the developers missed the point, with prefixes like int-, lng-, str-, var-, &c. marking physical types rather than the semantics. Now, what makes sense are prefixes like n<entity>s, e.g. nDays for the number of days, i<entity> for an index of <entity>, e.g. iBook for the index of a book in a list of books. With GUIs, marking physical types makes sense when you want to imply that two widgets are related, e.g. lblName and txtName for a label/textfield pair. But this is one of the few where such a usage really makes sense. </rant> K. -- Keith Gaughan, Developer Digital Crew Ltd., Pembroke House, Pembroke Street, Cork, Ireland http://www.digital-crew.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=38 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:181869 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
