[AccessD] On Coding Standards

But on the other hand if you're using .NET and want to see what (or if) you've initialized a variable at declaration time this is a handy thing to have.

Jim DeMarco
Director of Product Development
HealthSource/Hudson Health Plan


-----Original Message-----
From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:55 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] On Coding Standards


Also it is rather hard to "hover" over the variable in somebody's e-mail
to find out what they typed it as. <grin>

Charles Wortz
Software Development Division
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-1494
512-463-9493
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us



-----Original Message-----
From: John Colby [mailto:jcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
Sent: Tuesday 2003 Jul 08 12:49
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] On Coding Standards

Personally I don't subscribe to that theory, though MS is trying to
convince us.  Having the int, str, lng etc in a variable name makes the
program readable without HAVING to hover to see what the heck it is.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 1:37 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] On Coding Standards


I failed to communicate my intended perspective, Charles. What I
intended was, Access doesn't have smart intellisense as has .NET, so
that merely creating a variable won't give me its declaration. That's
what .NET does so well, and that's what I meant by "prefixes may be
obsolete". If merely hovering over a variable declaration will give me
"Dim ParentLoop as Integer", then who needs prefixes?

Arthur

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Wortz,
Charles
Sent: July 8, 2003 12:31 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] On Coding Standards


Arthur,

I have to disagree with you about naming standards not applying to
Access. Check the archives to see how much bandwidth is wasted on this
list due to people having poorly names variables/controls/fields that
are either the cause of their problems or have to be clarified before
their problems can be answered.

Charles Wortz
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