Re: [FWP] Drunk Driving redux (what was he thinking?)

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 13:55 -0500 6/24/99, Andy Lester wrote:
>> and I don't like "C++-style" mixed case variables, but that's personal
>>taste
>
> But in this case, it's wrong.  "sz" prefixed means "null-terminated
> string", which is certainly not the case with Perl.

Ah. Ah ha!  Thank you. I was wondering. It didn't seem to be anyone's
initials which was all I could think of. This was not a convention I was
shown in my brief exposure to C++.

Now I begin to understand the rest of the variable names in this code.

    @aPathname is... an Array!  (Wasn't the @ enough of a clue?)

    $nHighestVersion is... a Number (I'm getting good at this :-)

    $bTransferTags is... wait... I've got it.  Boolean.

of course, then there's
    %aPhdFiles (well, it's an associative Array; shouldn't it be
%aaPhdFiles? :)

sigh.

A C++ programmer.  sigh.  That explains a _lot_.

I suppose there is a certain logic to such a naming convention, but it's
sure not Perlish.  I could be convinced to go along with n, b, and maybe s.
sz, as you say, is inappropriate here, and a is just plain silly.

I'm less convinced that this code qualifies as Fun and am leaning more
toward Pathos, but this one _is_ "homework". And I get to rewrite it ;-)
Onward and upward.

- V.
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