John W Colby
jwcolby at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 10:52:49 CDT 2013
But wait, I am not hungarian! John W. Colby Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 7/1/2013 11:44 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote: > Hello Brad, > > I use Colby's naming convention and I NEVER prefix my field names with a data-type designation. > > Best, > TNF > > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com > 231-322-2787 > > On 7/1/2013 11:01 AM, Brad Marks wrote: >> All, >> >> In a prior life, I was sentenced to work with COBOL for over 30 years. >> For the past three years, I spend my time in the world of VBA. >> >> Since starting to work with VBA, I have been curious about something, >> but have never asked about it. >> >> In the COBOL realm (at least where I worked), we did not indicate the >> field type in the field name. >> >> Examples - >> 01 Part-Number PICTURE X(30). >> 01 Part-Cost Comp-3 PICTURE 9(05). >> >> >> In VBA examples, I see most people using prefixes such as Str, Lng, Dat, >> Etc. >> >> I have never quite understood why people do this when working with VBA >> while I believe that very few people did this in the COBOL realm. >> >> In COBOL we would simply look at the Picture clause in the field name >> definition. This would be the equivalent of looking at the DIM >> statement. >> >> Again, this is just a curiosity question. >> >> Thanks, >> Brad >> >