Phango - questions

[Sean Kelly]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> I used to be a big 'm_' guy, but I recently started using trailing 
> underscores for private members.  Started doing that after porting 
> OpenMesh from C++, which uses that convention.  I was amazed at how much 
> more readable all the code looked with the garbage characters appended 
> as a suffix rather than a prefix.  Apparently this style is used some by 
> Boost as well as the ACE library.  Trying to find out where it came from 
> I ran across a quote from someone saying (in 2004) that it's "the de 
> facto cool kids' C++ style".  :-) 
> http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.49438.14
> 
> I asked the original OpenMesh devs about it and one responded that he 
> used to be in typography before computer science, and from what he 
> learned doing that about how humans read he could say the suffix version 
> is definitely going to be more readable.

I prefer the "m_" prefix specifically because it is more visible than a 
suffix.  Perhaps I simply haven't spent enough time with the suffix 
form, but I feel that it's easier to miss a trailing underscore.  I am 
also not sure of how I would indicate static member data with a 
suffix... perhaps myVar_M and myVar_SM?


Sean