Re: gtkmm and C++0x

[Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri gmail com>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:02:42 +0200
Murray Cumming <murrayc openismus com> wrote:

> I appreciate that, as I once strongly believed in hungarian notation. I
> don't any more, though I can't explain why.

I really don't like the hungarian notation. Thinking about this further,
using auto may make people use hungarian notation again, because
the type is not so visible anymore. They'll want to embed it in the variable
name instead (for clarity or whatever).

> I guess it would be enough to always use meaningful variable names. "w"
> is a crappy variable name anyway.

Sure, but then again, the name of the variable shouldn't exactly reflect its
type either (otherwise, we'll be back to the (imho, awful) hungarian notation).
So, without auto, the questions like "is it a RefPtr to Gtk::UIManager" or
"is it a pointer to Gtk::UIManager" or "is it a Gtk::UIManager object" are
easily answered. With auto, I'm not so sure.
Remember that we're talking about people who are probably learning
gtkmm or its components (otherwise, they wouldn't be looking at examples
in the first place).

This all relates to the documentation code. The library and application code
is, of course, a completely different matter.

Thanks,
Alexander