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FOO - where does it come from?
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Yes and he is actually a good programmer.

>Do you know, what happened with the original programer? Is he still programming? :)
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>>It's not the worse way to name variables. I supported an application where original developer used variavbles name like m.f*ckyou and user would call and complain that program is cursing her. It turned out that she got message "Variable 'f*ckyou' not found".
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>>>>>Before Nancy's explanation I thought, that it's an short form of "function". Anyway, I personally hate to see all these "foo"s in my colleague's code. I always use a meangful name for variables, objects, etc., even for temp variables.
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>>>>Nadya,
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>>>>You mean that they actually use FOO and BAR in real live code!!!
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>>>>Even *I* wouldn't do a thing like that.
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>>>>Cheers,
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>>>>Chris
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>>>Don't remember about BAR, but FOO - definitely... Something like FOO=&CallProc
>>>Another problem is, that not all variables are declared. This also contradicts with my style, because I declare each used variable explicitly (though it's unnecessary). I also use l+type prefix, thought this is also obsolete, becase I also use m. to distinquish vars from table fields...
--sb--
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