[chbot] naming of variables

[Charles Manning]

I've given Jack a nudge to see how many people he'd need to add a Chch
leg to his trip.



On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Stephen Irons
<stephen.irons at clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Jack Ganssle is an entertaining speaker, and very down-to-earth. I heard him
> about 15 years ago at an Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, and have
> always wanted to hear his 'Better Firmware Faster' seminar.
>
> Well, he is bringing it to Auckland on November 16, for a cost of USD700 per
> person, or USD600 per person for a group of three. If you have anything in
> your training budget, this would be a good thing to spend it on.
>
> Stephen
>
> On 6 August 2015 at 09:55, hamster <hamster at snap.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> They are all pretty sane and well justified to me.
>>
>> I strongly agree with like adding units on variable that hold quantities.
>> I sit on the fence of the "uint8_t" vs "unsigned char" debate.
>>
>> The taxonomy idea is a bit silly. I would just say put the noun before
>> verb - e.g. picture_new() and picture_draw(), not new_picture() or
>> draw_picture()
>>
>> One I don't like is that you shouldn't use acronyms in variable names
>> global_positioning_system_latitude is silly - and he can pry 'c', 'i', 'j',
>> 'k' and 'n' from my cold dead hands :0!
>>
>> On 06.08.2015 06:42, Mark Atherton wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This man has some opinions on the subject
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzdONIqDJ8
>>
>> I rather like most of them ...
>>
>> -mark
>>
>> (pull pin, chuck pineapple, run :)
>>
>>
>>
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