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Should you use Hungarian notation?
Hungarian Notation can be useful in languages without compile-time type checking, as it would allow developer to quickly remind herself of how the particular variable is used. It does nothing for performance or behavior. It is supposed to improve code readability and is mostly a matter a taste and coding style.
How do you use Hungarian notation?
In Hungarian notation, a variable name starts with a group of lower-case letters which are mnemonics for the type or purpose of that variable, followed by whatever name the programmer has chosen; this last part is sometimes distinguished as the given name.
Why does C# use PascalCase?
They are used to lower camel casing for everything from table names in SQL databases to property naming in C# code but I like Pascal casing better, lower camel casing for variables and Pascal casing for properties: string firstName; public string FirstName { }
What do you need to know about Hungarian notation?
Hungarian Notation is a convention on identifier naming. It’s mainly applied to variable naming, but it can also cover the naming of functions. The notation is an attempt to formalize how a variable’s name can indicate its type or purpose. Using Hungarian Notation, variable names all begin with a group of letters with an agreed meaning.
Why do we use Hungarian notation in BCPL?
Hungarian notation was specifically invented in the sixties for use in BCPL, a pretty low-level language which didn’t do any type checking at all. I dont think any language in general use today have this problem, but the notation lived on as a kind of cargo cult programming.
Why is Hungarian used for things that are not types?
So, the central claim that Hungarian is for things that are not types is wrong. It’s being used for type information. Richer type information than the traditional C type information, certainly; it’s type information that encodes some kind of semantic detail to indicate the purpose of the objects.
When to use Hungarian as a programming language?
Apps hungarian will make sense if you are working with a language without user defined types, like legacy VBScript or early versions of VB. Perhaps also early versions of Perl and PHP. Again, using it in a modern languge is pure cargo cult.