Saurabh Agarwal wrote:
Is there any Coding Guidelines for Palm OS Programming.
I want to prefix my variables with some standard string/char which can tell
the data type.
For example:
b is for Boolean
d is for Double
rc for RectangleType
p for Pointer (EventPtr).
This is bad practice in general, and is incompatible with object-oriented
programming. For example, suppose you're using doubles and prefix
everything with d, but later decide you'd get better performance with
floats. You'd be in find-replace hell and would completely toast your
version control system. For that matter, you just plain don't need the
reminder; if you make a mistake and use a type the wrong way, the compiler
will tell you. Hungarian notation is a legacy of K&R C which no one should
ever adopt. In any case, don't do it because you foolishly think it's
standard, because it's not. (For that matter, don't use __var, type_t,
or CType unless you know why those conventions were invented in the first
place.)
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