At 21:02 2009-11-23, MB Software Solutions, LLC
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I'd like to shoot the developer(s) who used reserved names for fields.
>It makes Code References searches a real B!TCH when you have to look for
>the field name called TYPE or PRIVATE. Grrrr.........Just another
>reason why I still like using Hungarian Notation in code.
What I do not like is languages having reserved words. After
all, for the language to be easily understood, the reserved words
will be easily understood words. These words are some of those that
you might want to use to make your code easily understood.
And imagine the fun when version next of the language is
released and one of its new reserved words is one you have used
extensively in your working, ah, now-not-working code.
If the cost were slightly longer syntax so that a reserved word
and a named entity can not both be valid at the same point in the
syntax scan, I would not mind.
We would have a LET keyword for assignment then. Hey, dBASE II
had STORE as the way to assign and we survived that (some of us anyway).
DISPLAY would have a syntax like
DISPLAY FIELDS thing1,thing2,thing3
And so on.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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