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Post #99,554
by deSitter
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4/30/03 8:38:24 PM
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New Re: Not to me.
It's a honest question! I remember being a cool programmer - not recently though. There are these idioms that keep coming up - needless "voluntary syntax". It's a way of talking in code, so it's bound to have a "cool" aspect, like all other forms of communication.

-drl
Post #99,555
by admin
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4/30/03 8:40:58 PM
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New Again:
I don't do things like that to be cool.

I use naming conventions and idioms for maintainability, efficiency, readability, and any number of other -ys -- but not to be cool.

The only exception being unit testing data values. :-)

YMMV.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #99,577
by tuberculosis
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5/1/03 1:27:49 AM
8/21/07 6:11:07 AM
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New Don't know about cool
but I've been known to name globals/singletons that way. theEventDispatcher, theThreadPool, theMousePointer etc...

It kind of makes the point that there's only one.

Its also a HyperCard convention for global functions. ie

get the date.
put it into card field "Today"
put the selection into the message box

Lovely language, that.


"Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes.
Contestants in a suicidal race."
    - Synchronicity II - The Police
Expand Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:11:07 AM EDT
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     Another Table-head is allowed to write - (tablizer) - (37) - April 26, 2003, 06:49:43 PM EDT
         This is news how? - (static) - (34) - April 27, 2003, 03:37:04 AM EDT
             Many OO-heads would rather make 200 classes -NT - (tablizer) - (33) - April 28, 2003, 02:45:57 PM EDT
                 Any OO-heads want to corroborate this? - (static) - (32) - April 30, 2003, 08:31:44 AM EDT
                     We've already had this conversation with him. - (admin) - (1) - April 30, 2003, 08:34:14 AM EDT
                         Yes, that's what I thought someone would say. :-) -NT - (static) - April 30, 2003, 08:59:34 AM EDT
                     Re: Any OO-heads want to corroborate this? - (JimWeirich) - (29) - April 30, 2003, 11:55:05 AM EDT
                         Bryce wants to make the methodDictionary a table. - (tuberculosis) - (14) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:08:23 AM EDT
                             relational model of OOP - (tablizer) - (13) - April 30, 2003, 05:08:19 PM EDT
                                 Been there, done that, have the MI t-shirt. - (admin) - (12) - April 30, 2003, 05:32:04 PM EDT
                                     monomorphism - (tablizer) - (11) - May 1, 2003, 05:14:35 PM EDT
                                         Re: monomorphism - (admin) - (4) - May 1, 2003, 05:27:13 PM EDT
                                             If you remove inheritance - (tablizer) - (3) - May 1, 2003, 06:00:43 PM EDT
                                                 I didn't say remove it. -NT - (admin) - (2) - May 1, 2003, 06:09:46 PM EDT
                                                     Perhaps "ignore" is more appropriate -NT - (tablizer) - (1) - May 3, 2003, 01:24:15 AM EDT
                                                         I didn't say that either. -NT - (admin) - May 3, 2003, 08:45:12 AM EDT
                                         Re: monomorphism - (deSitter) - (5) - May 3, 2003, 01:32:34 AM EDT
                                             APL is not the only way to get efficient indexing - (tablizer) - (4) - May 4, 2003, 03:08:18 AM EDT
                                                 Do you finally admit - (deSitter) - (3) - May 4, 2003, 09:14:25 AM EDT
                                                     why? - (tablizer) - (2) - May 4, 2003, 03:52:08 PM EDT
                                                         Yes you are - (deSitter) - (1) - May 5, 2003, 10:09:10 AM EDT
                                                             radix is the "bucket sort" - (tablizer) - May 5, 2003, 03:33:00 PM EDT
                         Delta Dawn - (tablizer) - (12) - April 30, 2003, 04:54:54 PM EDT
                             You can't override a third of an eval string either. -NT - (tuberculosis) - (11) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:10:20 AM EDT
                                 Sure you can! - (admin) - (9) - April 30, 2003, 06:44:40 PM EDT
                                     Offensive - (deSitter) - (6) - April 30, 2003, 08:29:17 PM EDT
                                         Not to me. - (admin) - (3) - April 30, 2003, 08:35:40 PM EDT
                                             Re: Not to me. - (deSitter) - (2) - April 30, 2003, 08:38:24 PM EDT
                                                 Again: - (admin) - April 30, 2003, 08:40:58 PM EDT
                                                 Don't know about cool - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:11:07 AM EDT
                                         Logical reason for "the" prefix - (tablizer) - (1) - May 1, 2003, 05:32:22 PM EDT
                                             lack of response means you agree now? -NT - (tablizer) - May 5, 2003, 04:01:58 PM EDT
                                     You're creeping me out MAN! -NT - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:11:09 AM EDT
                                     /me blows tea through my nose! - (jb4) - May 1, 2003, 10:30:46 AM EDT
                                 If you don't split things into "subtypes" you don't need to -NT - (tablizer) - May 1, 2003, 05:27:57 PM EDT
                         I think it might get more complicated than that. - (static) - May 1, 2003, 08:29:36 AM EDT
         Re: Another Table-head is allowed to write - (johnu) - (1) - April 28, 2003, 03:31:58 PM EDT
             A: slower response time? - (jb4) - April 28, 2003, 06:07:38 PM EDT

This is untested and you're my guinea pig.
150 ms