Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

[Ecstatic Coder]

On Tuesday, 3 July 2018 at 03:27:06 UTC, Ali wrote:
> Well, D is not exactly known for contract oriented programming 
> or DbC (Design by Contract)
> we have to thank Bertrand Meyer and his language Eiffel, for 
> that

Thanks for pointing this out !

His book "Object-Oriented Software Construction" is an absolute 
MUST-READ for any decent programmer.

Contracts, large-scale object-oriented architecture, how to 
assign responsabilities to the right class, etc.

Even somthing seemingly insignificant as using uppercase 
typenames is a complete life changer, as this way you can 
immediately see the role of a single-word identifier just by its 
case.

That's after reading his book almost three decades ago that I've 
decided to use the following conventions for my personal code :

- PLAYER : type
- Player : member variable
- player : local variable

Still don't understand why people are still adding silly prefixes 
or suffixes ("m_", "_", "this->", etc etc) to differentiate local 
variables from member variables etc :

- Player : type
- player_, _player, m_player, this->player, etc : member variable
- player : local variable

While using the identifier case gets the job done in a simpler 
and more readable way...

IMO reading this book should be mandatory for any second-year 
student who is learning professional software development...