From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T20:32:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing all parameters to a method with a unique variable

Mario Ruiz wrote:
> Thanks for your comments.
> This is only an example the real name of my global variable is: 
> $txLoginData

That's only a bit better :-). The Ruby convention would be to call it 
tx_login_data in this case. However, this is really up to you as far as 
you are consistent in naming your variables (or you'd like to merge your 
code later with somebody using different naming conventions, e.g. Ruby's).

What's worse is the usage of global variables which is not recommended. 
I am not sure what are you working on though - maybe you are porting 
something over from a different language which is full of global 
variables, and you are not going to use this code too much in the future.

However, if that's not the case, and mainly if you are writing the code 
from scratch, factoring out the global variables would be a good idea in 
99.9% of the cases...

2c,
Peter
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