[AccessD] VBA Field Names - Curiosity Question

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 11:44:59 CDT 2013


Yup.  It is now known as Hungarian-Canadian convention.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 7/2/2013 12:24 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I know I'm going to be busted for this but I need to say it anyway. I think
> that Hungarian prefixes are Wrong. I am devoted to the school of Hungarian
> suffixes, which means:
>
> Customers_All_qs ' that means Query Select
> Customers_One_qs ' that means Query Select with an ID provided
> Customers_Insert ' duh.
> Customers_Delete ' duh
>
> The point of doing Hungarian suffixes is to group the objects by
> entity-name. Prefixes do not achieve this and the more involved the app the
> more difficult approaching it becomes. That's why I invented and switched
> to Hungarian suffix notation. If you're dealing with 100 or more tables,
> Hungarian prefix is going to cost you 10 or maybe 20 hours per week,
> looking for the object of interest.
>
> So, in honour and respect for the man who wrote Excel, I'll stick with the
> Hungarian part of the nomenclature, but I with to call it Hungarian suffix
> rather than prefix. And I think that I am right in this small revision of
> the Bible.
>
> A.



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