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The first time and last time I used the CSomeClass was because the company had a heavy influence from MS when porting to C++/NT. There was no reason for it then and no reason for it now.
But whatever floats your boat :)
/Why are we discussing this again?
To test a theory of mine: That people prepend their classes with "C" because they have somehow been brought up to believe that there is good reason to -- not because they actually have a good reason to. :) (OK, your company may force you to, but IMNSHO I don't believe that company has good reason.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick
Well...most-likely the compelling reason for most of them is the fact that Microsoft does it for their MFC classes... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinHall
That's what I believe too. It's interesting though that nobody has stated that. Perhaps people don't like being associated with MS and gravitate (perhaps subconsciously) to more "logical" reasoning for their practices.... Of course this is a pretty small sample pool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andreas Masur
I learned C++ by jumping into MFC, and being the forgetful type, I've gotten into the habit of prepending my classes with 'C'; structs with 'S' and enumerations with 'E'. That way I know just by looking at the name if it's a struct or a class. Then, I hit the F12 key to look it up anyhow!! :)
I don't really hold an attachment to these prefixes, however old habits are hard to break...
:cool:
Viggy
Actually worked for one company [about 8 years ago] that required classes to be prepended with "A" or "An". The rational... "Instance is AClassName";
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Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard
Well... for some reasons, VC7 doesn't automatically prepend the 'C' prefix anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andreas Masur
Well...no further comments... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard
Well...they might have figured out that any notation dedicated to the datatype is useless for object-oriented languages... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kheun
It probably also has to do with the smarter IDE. On VC7, when we position the mouse cursor over a declaratoin, it pops up tool tib indicating if it is a class, enum, etc.
As I already said, and also did Hokutata, I use C to prepend (this is not an english word until it gets into the Oxford Dictionary :D) my classes because it denotes class, it is used by Microsoft, because it has something to do with the Hungarian notation, because many others do it and finally because I think it is a good convention.Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinHall
Deep down in my subconscious mind might be a single reason, but I'll let Freud followers to find it. :D
Another question you should ask is why did Microsoft used "C" to prefix classes in MFC from the first place?
Because even some MS employees are Hungarian born ;) the common language used there is English. Imagine a parallel world with MS a German company: for sure they use K as prefix for Klasse names. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by cilu
You may prepend it with "C", with other character, or do not prefix it at all.
In any case the compiler will be not upset for that. :)
It's important that your code to be easy to read by the others.
I.e. to be not necessary to add tons of comments, explain what's this, write tens-pages documents ;), hit often F12, and blah-blah...
So, if the code you are writing it's not only for your own joy, it's good to respect some naming conventions. And this it's easy, just you must want it ;)
If the convention mentioned above is already widely used, it has no sense to invent the wheel... Even you like Microsoft or not :D
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Originally Posted by cilu
get Babylon :D :D