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20/05/2005 05:29:59
 
 
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19/05/2005 14:53:27
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01014573
Message ID:
01016132
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>>>- People used total unreadable variable names (like ldInvDte).
>>
>>Well, I wouldn't say that was unreadable - I take it immediately to be local date Invoice Date field, but, I agree with you that lazy-arsed var names should result in the shooting at dawn of the programmer. Just the inclusion of one letter, "a" would have made that amply readable.
>
>Not enough. ldInvDate is what - invoice date, inventory date, invention date or inversion date?

Granted. As I already said, there's no excuse for lazy, truncated var names. But, we're back to context again, D; I think the programmer would know if he was editing an Invoice, inventory or Invention system, don't you?
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- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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