[opencms-dev] Naming conventions

[Dan Liliedahl]

Hungarian Notation, invented by Charles Simonyi. Originally used for C/C++,
adopted for use in Java:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HungarianNotation



On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Manfred Schenk
<manfred.schenk at zerobyte.de>wrote:

> Paul-Inge Flakstad schrieb:
> > Hi
> >
> > Just a silly question really: I've never seen the naming convention used
> in OpenCms, with the "m_" prefix on member variables, used in Java before.
> Is this a commonly used naming convention in Java? Should I follow it when
> writing code which may be contributed to OpenCms? If so, is this the
> convention below the correct one?
> >
> >    1. member variables are prefixed with m_
> >    2. static variables are prefixed with s_
> >    3. global variables are prefixed with g_
>
> It is not commonly used in Java I think - but I've seen it in several
> cases where teams had switched from another language to java and had
> kept their naming guidelines.
>
> From my point of view such a type indication inside a name is not needed
> anymore since there are powerful IDEs nowadays.
>
> But if one special convention is used then it should be used
> consistently for the whole project.
>
> Regards,
> Manfred
>
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