Re: Long column names...Performance issues?
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:15:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <1069696d-8855-4ed2-9bce-ae3dfeaaa597_at_j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On 19 Nov., 19:29, chenthorn <car..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to hear from the community what you all feel are best
> practices regarding naming conventions, and how they affect your
> environment.
I'd say that naming has (almost) nothing to do with performance of
code, but it definitely has something to do with performance of coders
producing the code. Even with gui tools suggesting variants and
helping people not so familiar with schema it is hard to write
ThisLongAndWindyVariableNameExactlyDescribingWhatIsItsMainGoalAndExplainingWhyItWasCreatedAsWellAsAddingSomeOtherInfo.
On the other hand writing just i, j, k, l, m, n is also very dangerous
because it is hard to understand why these were creted, for what used
etc etc.
So the problem of course is to find where the golden mean lies. I'm
quite sure it doesn't matter where it is exactly for you/your project
but there is one thing which matters - stick with your standards. At
least in your project. It is hard to work with code having variables:
a
ANEWVARIABLE
A_NEW_VARIABLE a_New_Variable a_new_variable v_a_new_variable
ANewVariable
etc
So stick with one standard and use it. My favourite is here http://www.gplivna.eu/papers/naming_conventions.htm yours may be somewhere else :)
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu
Received on Wed Nov 19 2008 - 22:15:56 CET