From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T08:11:02+09:00
Subject: Re: how to use curly brackets vs. 'end' in Ruby

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I certainly cannot disagree with that!

:-)

bad-hungarian is when you prefix a variable name with type information
eg:

  fWidth =3D fSize

the 'f' simply means float.  you can see you have type compatibilty on both
sides, but it doesn't say anything about semantic compatibility. fWidth
could be used as a measure in metres, whereas fSize is expressed in feet!

good-hungarian is when you prefix a variable name with semantic information

   metric_width =3D feet_size

you can see immediately that there is a problem there.  both variables are
of the same type (Float), yet they have a different meaning.

I would argue that in ruby -using duck typing- we use good hungarian quite =
a
lot.

On 5/1/06, Stuart Stegall <stuart@footworkmedia.com> wrote:
>
> So Hungarian Notation =3D Bad, Hungarian Women =3D Good.  Did I get that
> right?
> chiaro scuro wrote:
> > ah! but not may know that there are both bad-hungarian and
> > good-hungarian !
> >
> > On 4/30/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: "Robert Klemme" <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
> >> >
> >> > 2006/4/28, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>:
> >> > > On 4/28/06, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > > FYI, the most often used convention is to use {} for single line
> >> > > > blocks and do..end for multiline blocks.
> >> > >
> >> > > This is an oft-used convention, but it is probably wrong.
> >> >
> >> > I wonder how a convention can be wrong. This may sound like
> linguistic
> >> > nitpicking, but the whole point of a convention seems to be that it'=
s
> >> > adhered to. It just "is" but can't be right or wrong IMHO. There
> might
> >> > be more and less usable and easier and more complicate conventions -
> >> > but right or wrong?
> >>
> >> You know Robert, I was in complete agreement with you - until
> >> I remembered Hungarian Notation.   <grin>
> >>
> >>
> >> lpszRegards,
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chiaroscuro
> > ---
> > Liquid Development: http://liquiddevelopment.blogspot.com/
> >
>
>
>


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