From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: <16626354.1101.1326481165655.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbhz6> References: <86vcoif5f4.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <16626354.1101.1326481165655.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbhz6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1228.1326711556.1@kryten-en0.lany63.cz> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: <201201161104.aa00576@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ce33f46-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Also, notations like Hungarian are usually problematic (http://programmers.= > stackexchange.com/questions/102689/what-is-the-benefit-of-not-using-hungari= > an-notation) instead of beneficial. I don't ever use Hungarian notation myself, but in its defense I would say that there is some merit to the original idea, it's just been almost universally misunderstood. There's a coherent, if rather longwinded, explanation in the first link in that stackexchange page you cited. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282