[Gambas-user] Better use of prefixes

[Cedron Dawg]

I think so too.  So far I haven't seen any counter-argument beyond "I like it, my pappy did it that way, and his pappy did it that way, and his pappy before that.  If it is good enough for them, it's good enough for me."

The "arg" convention comes from C of course:  int main( int argc, char* argv[] )

Rather than introduce the confusion issues that Lee mentioned, may I suggest you do something in line with the current approach and perhaps just double up a dollar sign or perhaps "$_" for your argument variables.  Using "$" as a prefix is already a precedent for locus specification, adding another member would serve the same purpose without introducing a hybrid approach.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Lehmann" <hans at gambas-buch.de>
To: "user" <user at lists.gambas-basic.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:15:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Better use of prefixes

Hello, 

an interesting debate and peaceful at the same time. 

For me, it is a suggestion to check my source texts to see whether they sufficiently fulfill the Gambas Convention on Designators and are consistent in themselves. There is only one point on which I will consider changes: It has always bothered me that I can't be sure that arguments in procedures in the source code are arguments. I will extend the existing convention of using arguments without prefix and add an 'Arg' to the arguments prefix in the future. 

Yours sincerely 

Hans 

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