John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Aug 12 17:51:16 CDT 2004
May I suggest, "lost cause"? John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:07 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Naming Conventions DWUTKA at marlow.com wrote On 8/11/2004 1:40 PM: >These are the after effects of someone's 'deemed' best practices. If I >had a contract job, like the one you discussed below, I would do as the >client asked. But when developing other software, which did not have >such client restraints, then I would use the method that I work the >fastest in, and find the most convenient to use. That saves my clients >time and money. > >It's not lazy, in fact, you could say that you're being lazy, in >applying one clients 'demands' on all of your clients, so that you >don't have to change mindsets. <Grin> > > While everyone on the list will agree that i, l and k are all simply just integer or long counters, and could be used interchangeably... it also isn't a big deal to be explicit and say lngRankCnt or lngRankCount, the fact that it took you all of a .001 seconds to type out the extra characters is negligable... and in fact when reviewing your code for logic you'd spot the variable name and explicitly know what the heck it was ment to do. -- -Francisco -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com