From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 13:10:43 +0100

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> The importance of prefixes to variable names is mostly overstated and IMHO,
> is targeted for environments where lots of programmers are newbies or general
> losers (read: in the big bad commercial world we all live and work in on our
> real-life jobs).

EXACTLY! Well said Daniel!

>
> Lots of *HUGE* and very successful projects have no prefix conventions at
> all.

Well, having a brain is clearly better than any prefix convention. Code
isn't necessarily well written and functional because the variables
names are long and unreadable.

/Linus
Received on 2002-11-08