Sorry for a noobish question but I've stumbled upon some other person's code and he is using i_tmp2 inside of a for loop. When is the i_tmp2 notation used?
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Ask the person who actually wrote the code. Every individual programmer has their own reasons for choosing their notation styles for particular types of code.
Not Sure
2009-04-10 20:52:09
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It is used when the programmer isn't very good.
Oh come on, it's a joke.
rlbond
2009-04-10 20:58:35
And you can tell this from one variable name?
Samuel
2009-04-10 21:04:13
Yes you absolutely can tell this from one variable name. All good programming methods include strict rules on variable naming particularly the use of meaningful variable names. I always prefix variables with their type so at least it looks like he is doing that part right.
Nicholas Kreidberg
2009-04-10 21:22:05
AHH HUMOR NAZIS!
André Neves
2009-04-10 22:45:31
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i in i_tmp2 probably stands for "integer", i.e. telling you it's a variable used for storing whole numbers.
tmp2 in i_tmp2 probably just means it's the second temporary variable created.
Tobbe
2009-04-10 20:59:24
I thank everyone who took the time to answer. I think this explanation comes closest to deciphering the meaning behind this variable naming.
Marin
2009-04-10 23:02:29
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There is a slightly outdated variabla naming convention called Hungarian notation, credited mostly to Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian programmer worked for Microsoft. With HN, the first character of the variable name is i for integer, l for long, w for word, etc. It is (was) useful with strongly typed languages to keep all the programmers remembering the type of the variables used/expected by functions.
Nowdays it is mostly out of fashion :)
Csaba Kétszeri
2009-04-11 08:11:49