On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:05:33 -0700, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 20-08-08 19:50, John L. Utz III wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:28:39 -0700, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Also, a Windows style variable name should be avoided. People tend to >>> hate it. >> Why would you call this 'Windows Style?' Is that supposed to be a >> perjorative comment? > > You insult really quickly... :-) Quickly, but not deeply. :-) > > The style is more generally known as Hungarian Notation after its > Hungarian "inventor" who was a chief architect at Microsoft. Yuppers. I know. Charles Simonyi. I really, really, like it. > This notational conventation saw widespread use in the Windows API and > not much use anywhere beyond that. with an example of 'beyond that' being John Utz's code. Be it C, Java, C#, Javascript, Ada or any languages that use strong types. I dont do it in shell script tho: # Let any boot observers know what devices we found echo "Type MotherBoard: ($TYPEMBD)" echo "Type Soundcard: ($TYPESND)" echo "Type Ethenet: ($TYPEETH)" echo "Type Modem: ($TYPEMDM)" anyway, we can argue about it again after i get a checkpatch compliant patch to submit.... johnu > Rene. > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
