[AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace Period)

William Hindman wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 10 19:28:53 CDT 2003 

...I can ...have ...will :)

...working with my own code is difficult enough using naming conventions
...trying to figure out what someone else intended when they don't use
Reddick and/or don't comment their code/conventions drives me ape ...you
work in a different environment than I do ...I constantly get handed code
that someone else did, they are no longer available, and no one in the
client's office has a clue ...and most of it isn't written using Reddick or
comments ...actually most of it would be better off dumped in the bit bucket
but that's usually not an option ...so, if I'm doing anything other than a
quick fix, my first task is to standardize the code using naming conventions
and comments where possible ...all while loudly and inventively cursing the
bunghole who wrote it :))))

William Hindman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace Period)


> Oh come on, that's not true.  You can't possibly say that when you have to
> work on someone else's code, that if someone used 'strStatus' to represent
a
> variant, which is going to be a string in all cases except when it's Null,
> that you would go and rename it everywhere.
>
> I think there is WAY too much fuss about this.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:39 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace
> Period)
>
>
> I think the point is that in VBA you would normally use type specific
> prefixes, whatever you may do in ASP.  I'm glad you have to maintain
> your code.  It would drive me nuts and I'd wind up renaming everything!
> 8~{
>
> Charlotte Foust
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:51 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace
> Period)
>
>
> But why would you change your coding style in a scripted language?  In
> ASP, I still use int and str as prefixes, even though everything is a
> variant.
>
> Along those lines, I use int for ALL integers, mainly because I only use
> an Integer type when absolutely necessary (if an API requires it...etc.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim DeMarco [mailto:Jdemarco at hshhp.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace
> Period)
>
>
> ASP is a different animal though isn't it?  Scripted code versus
> compiled and all that.  Reddick naming conventions specify using "var"
> prefix for variants although we use "v" here (or "var").  Seems
> dangerous not specifying the actual data type in your VB/VBA code.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Jim DeMarco
> Director of Product Development
> HealthSource/Hudson Health Plan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:18 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace
> Period)
>
>
> Do you write ASP pages?  If so, do you prefix all of your variables with
> var?
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Elliker [mailto:delliker at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:20 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Convention (was Days Past Due - Grace
> Period)
>
>
> I don't get it...how do you ever know what the datatype is?? How do you
> know
>
> when an 'str' is really a string and when it will accept a form
> reference. How about overflows? If you follow that logic, what looks
> like a long, may be an integer. I suppose you can do whatever you want,
> but if the logic is "I may need to have something else here but I want a
> string"...then why not (as I believe William suggested) make them all
> variant and leave off the datatype
> 'convention' (not).
> _d
>
>
>
> "Things are only free to the extent that you don't pay for them".-Don
> Elliker
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
> >Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem
> >solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> >To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> ><accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> >Subject: RE: [AccessD] Days Past Due - Grace Period
> >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:33:06 -0500
> >
> >I don't think I have every prefixed a Variant as var, yet.  My logic in
>
> >my statement is I want a string, so I prefixed it as a string, but it
> >may need to be a variant, so it's declared as a variant.
> >
> >Drew
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:24 AM
> >To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> >Subject: Re: [AccessD] Days Past Due - Grace Period
> >
> >
> >Hi Drew
> >
> > > .. I left the strStatus argument as a variant, in case it is ever
> > > passed a null
> >
> >Then you should have renamed it varStatus ...
> >
> >/gustav
> >
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