Prefixes for Variable Names

[cmclane]

In many SuperCard scripts I see variable name prefixes like "p", "t", "s" etc. Is this Hungarian Notation or some variant of it? Is there a list of the prefixes that are most commonly used or generally considered as good practice in SC scripting?

[Scott]

My method is to prefix locals with a 't' (temporary), globals with a 'g', and user propnames with a 'p' or 'u'. Makes scripts much more readable and eliminates reservedWord errors.

[jen...@adelaide.on.net]

(Hmm... I don't think that my email reply three hours ago has got through, so I will repost via the groups.google.com website.)

Hi Charlie

I have been using such variable name prefixes for years, based on a recommendation from Richard Gaskin for "liberal use of what is commonly referred to as Hungarian notation, in honor of the famous Microsoft programmer Charles Simonyi".

I see that Richard still has his Scripting Style Guide at 

http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html

It's recommended reading.

Peter Jenkins

[Charles McLane]

Peter, thank you for pointing me to the style guide that Richard and others put together. It looks like a great resource. It not only answered my question about variable naming, but just in skimming it I picked up a number of tips - - e.g. how to differentiate various types of comments in a script. I'll read it in full before attempting to work with the SampleDraw project (which I can see follows many of these conventions).

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