At 17:55 2009-11-24, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
>------------------------------
>
>I think that the compiler should have alerted the first round
>programmers of poor choice in words. Maybe if they had intellisense
>it would not be an issue today?
How would you tell?
Is "display status" a command to display the status, or is it a
command to display the column named status?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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