Re: Fwd: Compiler Guided Refactoring.

In article <CAEyOLyB+NPY-zhMGSG_F7NHJgPYsqsUHjkAYoOD5D4sejYYcSQ@mail.gmail.com>,
    J Arrizza <[email protected]> writes:

> Further to this, one additional refactoring I've used is Rename Variable to
> add a "g" prefix to all global variables. I personally don't like hungarian
> notation but adding the "g" is a very useful exception to this rule. All
> the globals show up clearly in the code.

Strictly speaking, this isn't Simonyi (i.e. "Hungarian") notation,
which encodes the type of the variable into it's name:

    int i_foo;

You're annotating the name with it's visibility scope.  This is often
done by many people for global ("g_" prefix), static ("s_"), and member
("m_") data.  In C#, we would often use "_" prefix for class member
variables.  In Java, the cultural convention seems to be to not use
any prefix for member data at all.  In C++, identifiers beginning with
underscore followed by a capital letter or another underscore are reserved
by the standard, so the tendency has been to use "g_", "s_" and "m_"
even if Simonyi notation is not used, avoiding a leading underscore
altogether.
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