[AccessD] Naming Conventions

No flames here, I have made the same change to my naming convention as well.

It started with Report-Subreports and Form-Subforms, I was tired of fighting the prefix to find all sub objects to the main object.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of 
> Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:41 AM
> To: AccessD
> Subject: [AccessD] Naming Conventions
> 
> 
> After two decades of propounding standard Hungarian notation, I am now
> dead set against it, for two reasons:
> 
> A) You have to read past the prefix to find out what anything relates
> to. IOW, you increase noise at the expense of signal.
> B) All objects named thus sort poorly. How does it help you 
> if every cbo
> is prefixed "cbo"?
> 
> For the past year or so I have used what I call the "object-action"
> naming scheme. It uses Hungarian notation but as suffix not 
> prefix. This
> preserves the sort order in a meaningful way. A couple of examples:
> 
> CustomerInsert_ap - suffix means application procedure (as opposed to
> system procedure)
> CustomerSelectByName_fnt - user-defined function that returns 
> a table of
> customerIDs and names sorted by name (SQL 2000+ only)
> CustomerFilter_cbo - combo box that filters the form by selected
> customer (i.e. show only the orders placed by selected customer)
> 
> Perhaps the main reason that I have moved to this convention 
> is the ease
> of teaching it to a new hire, and letting her find her way around the
> database quickly. "Look for the object of interest, followed by the
> action of interest, and know what you're dealing with by the suffix."
> 
> In Access 2002+, this convention is especially profitable, because a
> single "Queries" tab houses sprocs, UDFs and views. Prefixing them all
> with standard Hungarian prefixes muddies the water, IMO. My convention
> lets you type "C" and immediately go to all the "Customer" related
> stuff. Then you can quickly deduce what's available for 
> re-use, and what
> sort of object it is.
> 
> Given the overwhelming devotion to standard Hungarian 
> notation, I expect
> this message to cause lots of flames and rebuttals. That's why we're
> here, after all :)
> 
> Arthur
> 
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