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System Hungarian Notation for Android UI components?
Is using System Hungarian Notation for Android UI components (Views) valid? I mean using it ONLY for Views - no strSomething, boolStuff or similar names. For example, tvDescription (TextView), ...
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"Is" prefix and "On" suffix as reasonable exceptions to a "non-hungarian" naming standard?
First, I believe I've seen this question discussed here before, but I cannot find it. My apologies if you do find it. I'm starting a new project, and trying to figure out why IsResolved and/or ...
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Is hungarian notation a workaround for languages with insufficiently-expressive static typing? [closed]
In Eric Lippert's article What's Up With Hungarian Notation?, he states that the purpose of Hungarian Notation (the good kind) is to extend the concept of "type" to encompass semantic ...
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Do you prefix variable names with an abbreviation of the variable types? (Hungarian Notation) [closed]
In my current job, there are no coding guidelines. Everyone pretty much codes the way he wants. Which is fine, since the company is small. However, one new guy recently proposed to always use ...
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Are type and scope prefixes worthwhile naming conventions?
Recently starting my first job as a software developer, I was a little thrown to be told that I did not have to follow any naming conventions in my code. Code written by groups working on other, ...