What do you prepend your class names with?

Did I ever preppended my class names with something???

Well, in fact I did preppend with "lpp" when I started with C years ago, when no namespaces were available. For normal variables or other kinds of things (enumerations, structs or whatever) I was more confortable preppending something like the enumeration name for variables of an enumerated type, for example:

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enum colors {
    red, blue, green;
};

enum colors colors_window, colors_door;

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and so on. The same for 'non-bool-type' bools: bool_try, bool_exit, etc.


I think now with C++ as an OOL and namespaced availabe almost everywhere, preppending names with something related to tyhe type is unnecesary. I'd rather preppend something indicating the usage, ala "CarMap", for a map that maps car types to, whatever, license numbers.

Just to chime back in....

I do not currently repent names with anything to indicate their type [with the exception of certain ui elements], but I do use a combination of capitalization and prefix to indicate name scope:

local variables start with lower case.
Methods [verbs], Properties[adjectives] and Classes[nouns] start with UpperCase.
member variables are prepended with an m_
global (rare) are prepended with a g_
statics (variables) are prependes with an s_

I use a coding-convention somewhat similar to the one TheCPUWizard uses.

Globals get a g_
Member-variables a m_
Statics a s_
Function parameters get a p_

For class-names (and local variable-names) I follow the convention used in the standard-library; all small letters, with words separated by an underscore. Nothing prepended or prefixed or whatever the word is... The reason for adopting that style is that I do a lot of library-development, and by using a style similar to the standard-library, users tend to feel more comfortable using them. (A *nix coder being forced to use a library written using Hungarian-notation would probably feel a bit alienated!)

I have been using Hungarian notation (A long time ago), but I found it to be too much of a hassle as opposed to what I would get back (in terms of readabillity) for the effort.

Well I do what ever strikes my fancy when I happen to write a piece of code.
One day I am all for hangarian and use it like crazy, heck I even sprinkle a little
hungarian on the the hungarian and toss some postfix on there for good measure.

g_d_m_Wow_l_v_

Othes days I can not stand lower case but am still in the hungarian mood

G_D_M_WOW_L_V

Some days I am feeling lazy and so don't want to type

w

Or am lazy but still cry out in agony when forced to type lower case

W

You know....


p.s. Who out there can honestly say they have actually looked at a variable
and said, "by golly I would have thought that was a string, good thing I used hungarian notation" ?

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Originally Posted by souldog

p.s. Who out there can honestly say they have actually looked at a variable
and said, "by golly I would have thought that was a string, good thing I used hungarian notation" ?

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Is C++ the first lanquage you have coded in?

/We didn't have those fancy IDE's you fellars have these days...it was called print it out and take it home...

Yup, C++ is my first language. Sorry if I offended you, you old fogy.
I have to admit I do use the g_ on globals.


Oh by the way, of course I don't put a C in front of my class names.

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Originally Posted by souldog

Yup, C++ is my first language. Sorry if I offended you, you old fogy.
I have to admit I do use the g_ on globals.


Oh by the way, of course I don't put a C in front of my class names.

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no offense...but try printing out your code, putting it in a binder, and flipping the pages...and going...now what the fark was that var declared as???

As I said...hungarian had it's place...but technology caught up...

So I use all upper case for class names, typedefs ... user defined types

MY_STINKING_OBJECT


So who is with me.... rah rah rah

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Originally Posted by souldog

So I use all upper case for class names, typedefs ... user defined types

MY_STINKING_OBJECT


So who is with me.... rah rah rah

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I've seen your class names...mr uppercase...

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Originally Posted by Mick

no offense...but try printing out your code, putting it in a binder, and flipping the pages...and going...now what the fark was that var declared as???

As I said...hungarian had it's place...but technology caught up...

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Well I have to admit I didn't read most of this thread, my suspicion is that most
of the MFC bound programmers (the ones who use CArray instead of vector or
complain that "you are not following the rules of MFC when you do that" etc...)
use the C and rest don't.

I can definitely see that there was a time when hungarian notation was useful,
but most likely that time has passed. Probably just something jackass
professors can grade on now.


//I know you were not offended. I just wanted to call you an old fogy.

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Originally Posted by souldog

Probably just something jackass
professors can grade on now.

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Same thing I said when the push to use C++ started.

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Originally Posted by Mick

I've seen your class names...mr uppercase...

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Yah I love those upper case user defined types... oh yah that is the way to do it.

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Originally Posted by souldog

Yah I love those upper case user defined types... oh yah that is the way to do it.

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Well it certainly gets your attention.

It seems to me it doesn't matter what you do as long as you are consistent and use adequately descriptive names.

I would that a programmer who gets confused reading code because the naming
convention is different than their own is not worth their salt. (PERIOD on the end
in case you did not see it)

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Originally Posted by Hokutata

Much Ado About Nothing
Back to work, philosophers!

:D

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Yeah. From a point you are perfectly right. ;) :thumb: