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Many to many table name
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02/01/2007 18:05:23
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01181570
Message ID:
01181638
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>I like to give tables, fields, variables, ... the names that they are suposed to have, no matter if they are long (I put a personal limit on 32 chars).
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>I think there are far more advantages of using long names than disadvantages; or better said, the advantages outweight by far the disadvantages. In the few books-articles I have read about coding practices, this is commonly advised (in "Code Complete", for example).
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>ProblemsWithResolutions is a long name, but if it is the best suited and represents with accuracy what's inside it, I would use it. If you start reducing long names sooner or later your code will be full of probWRes, progWORet, resWProb, wRes_Prob, probWRes_s, ... and will be harder to maintain.
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>Just my opinion.
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Thanks, Javier.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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