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[Saint]

I'm working on creating a set of "defined" rules for how I will develop in the future. I'm confused about how I should name variables in a consistent way that can appear in all of programs. My question is, what do you guys use?

Globals: __<name>

The what? Is camelCase used most often for everything else? What about objects?

[WingedPanther]

There are a number of standards out there. At work we use a simplified version of hungarian, at home I prefer camelCase. There are several books on programming standards that will address this issue quite thoroughly and can be gotten fairly cheap. I'll try to get the name of my book this weekend.

[WingedPanther]

The Elements of C++ Style
There's also
The Elements of C# Style
The Elements of Java Style

[v0id]

I've always used camelCase, but I'm thinking about changing to Hungarian Notation. Hungarian notation is almost like camelCase, excepts Hungarian Notation includes the type of the variable in its name.

CamelCase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hungarian notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[WingedPanther]

Hungarian can be useful, but it can also get REALLY nuts. I think a limited version is useful.

[v0id]

WingetPanther said:

Hungarian can be useful, but it can also get REALLY nuts. I think a limited version is useful.

You're right. Over the time I've seen some really long variable names, because of the use of Hungarian notation.

I'll probably only using them with variables/objects like integers, classes, booleans, etc.

int   iItems;
class CControl;
bool  bStatus;

// ...

That's enough for me.