[gdal-dev] Hungarian Notation

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

This is described in https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc8_devguide.html 
. I've submitted https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9689 so it is going 
to be linked to 
https://gdal.org/development/dev_practices.html#making-changes-to-gdal

I'd probably agree that at my beginnings in GDAL, I might have felt 
unfamiliar with the Hungarian notation, but now I've fully internalized 
it, so I hardly notice it. It would be interesting to have opinions of 
other developers if they find it inconvenient/a hurdle, are neutral or 
like it.  The thing is that if we decide to no longer use it, the 
inconsistency of mixing free style naming and Hungarian notation might 
be problematic and make code confusing. We should probably aim at being 
consistent at least at the scope of a given function or file.

Even

Le 17/04/2024 à 15:48, Andrew Bell via gdal-dev a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I was going to make some changes to some GDAL code and I generally 
> want to follow along. I see that most of the code is still using 
> Hungarian notation for identifier names. I haven't seen this anywhere 
> else in like 20 years.
>
> Is it OK to submit code without this naming convention or do we still 
> think it's important. I didn't see an RFC or documentation that covers 
> this, but there's lots so I may have missed it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Andrew Bell
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