Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Mon Aug 9 10:33:31 CDT 2004
Exactly! The names ijk imply throwaway variables not of interest in themselves -- mere counters. So there's nothing wrong IMO with Dim i as Long, j as Long, k as Long For I = 1 to 100 For j = 1 to 10 For k = 1 to 35 DoSomething Next DoSomethingElse Next DoSomethingCompletelyDifferent Next What's the rumpus? (quoting my fave movie of all time, "Miller's Crossing") Arthur -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DWUTKA at marlow.com Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:49 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Naming Conventions Ah, but i, j, k, etc. are a naming convention in and of itself. We don't go: LongIntegerSomethingOrOther We go: lngSomethingOrOther or intSomethingOrOther Because lng relates to a long integer....int to integer.... so, i, j, k relate to a counting integer..... What's the fuss? Now, this whole naming convention thing would be a completely different story if the entire world programmed the same way. But they don't. No one can agree on the exact same convention, so all this is, is many many 'camps' saying 'my way is better, I better not ever have to read your code'..... Drew