From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T20:41:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] blah (was Re: `not' in parameter lists)


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> Well, I happen to think he's, like, 20% right on exceptions, and 5% 
> right on Hungarian, but again, while the particular solution is wacky, 
> the general solution is good, and well put: Make Wrong Code Look Wrong.

I read it and thought that the idea that the original idea was to prefix 
the semantic meaning, not the type was actually not a bad idea, but so 
many developers (windows developers) prefix with useless stuff like 
iValue (int) etc, that I came to the conclusion there was no usefulness 
in prefix notations.  Also I was taught to give meaningful variable 
names anyway so his examples wouldn't have counted with my variable 
naming conventions.

A lot of people are looking at Exceptions as an ugly step-sister these 
days - I think Bruce Eckel made a similar point (hence the Thinking in 
Python book)

Kev