Abandon Hungarian notation ?

Open rouault opened this issue 10 months ago • 2 comments

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Hungarian notation is not very popular among today's developers. Not clear what the exact plan would be if we go away from it: drop it in all existing code (obviously that would require the conversion process to be automated at > 99.999%), or just in new code (with the danger of having files with mixed conventions which might be worse) ?

Feb 10 '25 21:02 rouault

I initially hated it but now I've got used to it, the usefulness of the notations is probably fading away due to the new IDEs and to the use of std:: library objects.

I agree that we move away we should probably drop it in all existing code or we will have a confusing mix.

Feb 12 '25 08:02 elpaso

Yes. I have always hated it and continue to do so. Maybe in new code and when significant changes are done to a file then convert the whole file.

Feb 14 '25 11:02 ajolma