Thanks for looking at it Ken,
On Jul 2, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 7/2/05 4:59 PM, "Dennis Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks good to me, Dennis... and as long as you remember that
variables that
end with "W" still are truly global until this gets implemented at
RunRev,
you're in good shape.
Yes, I will be careful with my own stacks. I don't expect anyone
else will be using my crazy scheme and misspelling their global names
with an extra "W" at the end of them for a wile at least. As soon a
RunRev makes a stack level global, I will make an edit pass to fix
all the lines that have a comment of "--fix".
I, too, read my code out loud in my head, but I guess I'm just so
used to
Hungarian Lite that it just "sounds right" to me.
I expect that if I had experience with the strongly typed languages
(instead of assembler (where operators determine the type --not
data), and high level languages that are typeless), I might find it
more "natural". I am sure that if I forced myself to use Hungarian
for a year, I would also get comfortable with it. However, X-Talk
languages are natural English languages. I ask my wife to read the
Clock script I wrote. She was able to read it and understand how it
worked without ever seeing Transcript before. It would not have been
so easy if the variable names did not "read" right. Transcript does
not require any such notations in variables in order to work, nor has
it traditionally been documented as needing these. It does not
really matter if you junk up a cryptic language with more cryptic
stuff, but it does matter if you take a non-cryptic language and make
it cryptic. In fact, I would wager that if the inventor of the
Hungarian notation started with Transcript and wanted to solve the
same problems for Transcript, that it would not look like the current
Hungarian notation. However, from reading the many posts on this
thread, I realized that there were advantages to adding some tags to
variable names. So, I set out to gain the important advantages of
the Hungarian notation in the least invasive way to the readability
of Transcript for my own style.
Anyway, as long as it is consistent and works for you...
I really appreciate the support from everyone looking and making
helpful suggestions about my "deviations" from the norm, instead of
just saying "Don't re-invent the wheel, we have a perfectly good one
already".
Thanks,
Dennis
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