Identifier Naming

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Mark T schrieb am 2006-03-11:
> In article <1osp8dzdh9ihy$.yoi1lhqbyw8f$.dlg at 40tude.net>, Derek Parnell says...
>>This is kinda off topic but I can't understand why coders still use
>>standard words for identifiers. I mean after all these years of experience
>>with computing languages, this is one common source of bugs and problems. 
>>
>>So to make coding life easier, just stop using single normal words for
>>identifiers. Pick a naming convention that prevents this habit and the
>>chances you are going to clash with reserved words is greatly reduced. It
>>not really all that hard.
>
> I hope you don't mean "Hungarian" notation or other cryptic naming hacks. I find
> that code style impossible to read. 

I just love C#:

> class NamingOnTheRocks{
>    static int @if(int @while){
>        return @while * @while;
>    }
>
>    public static int Main(string[] args){
>        int @return;
>        int @static = 3, @switch = 8, @break = 2, @case = 3, @true = 0;
>
>        if(@if(@switch + @break) * @case != @true){
>            @return = @static;
>        }else{
>            @return = @break / @static;
>        }
>
>        return @return * 2;
>    }
> }

No joke - this is valid C# !

Thomas


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