Hungarian

re: Hungarian

Rick Schaut — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:34:00 GMT

Take a look at <a href=http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/14/73108.aspx this>. Wikipedia references the article <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hungarian_notation here>.

Rick

re: Hungarian

Uwe Keim — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:40:00 GMT

That study that your wife stated is a hoax.

This is a german magazine's article about that stuff:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/15/15701/1.html

This is the google-translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Ftp%2Fr4%2Fartikel%2F15%2F15701%2F1.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

re: Hungarian

Rob Earhart — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:51:00 GMT

It wouldn't surprise me if study's a hoax... the underlying idea remains, though--people seem to be able to handle a certain degree of scrambling, but that mechanism's probably not as useful with Hungarian. At least, that matches my intuition, having used Hungarian a bit.

I'd love to see some sort of "reading comprehension" study done on source code written in various languages and in various styles... it'd be hard to factor in people's existing language knowledge, but it might still be useful.

re: Hungarian

Michael Grier [MSFT] — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:04:00 GMT

I think there is a useful subset of Hungarian.

rgElements - an array of elements
iElement - the index (0-based) of an element
cElements - the count of elements in a collection
rgpElements - an array of pointers to elements
prgElements - a pointer to the head of an array of elements
pElement - a pointer to a single element

specifically, the "i" and "c" prefixes are very useful IMO as a shorthand for "ElementCount" or "ElementIndex".

pElement vs. prgElements is useful to differentiate a pointer to a singleton vs. a pointer to a vector/array/"range" of elements (range is where rg comes from; I think it's obtuse but whatever.)

Further

pszName
rgchName

is a good distinction since the intent is clear that pszName is terminated with a null character where rgchName is just an array of characters which may or may not have a null character inside the array.

In Office, we had to assign a Hungarian prefix to every type which was rediculous. That's where you get some of the craziness.

It's Hungarian-esque

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:53:00 GMT

It's Hungarian-esque

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:31:00 GMT