Re: rpg constant

Well, we might need to learn some of that Hungarian notation, take the CLI includes, e.g. Lots of variables with prefixes that describe what they are. But we could also go back to $ and ! at the end of variables in Basic. (I probably have those wrong!)

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On 7/5/2010 12:40 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 7/5/2010 10:42 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I start all constants with C_, and make the name upper case.

I'm not a big fan of using prefixes on fields& constants to note their use. I make constants all caps. IMO, that should be sufficient to indicate that it's a constant.

Yes, I know, fields pulled in from files defined in DDS are all caps, but I try to avoid referencing them as all caps.

Once, when I was programming in C++, I was expected to use Hungarian Notation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation) which drove me crazy.

It would be fun to compare conventions.

For normal fields I try to give them very meaningful names using mixed case (usually starting with a lower case character).

The only time I prefix something is a procedure in a specific service program. For instance: All exported procedures in the IMUTIL service program are prefixed "Util_".

david