Naming Convention - Module-level variables ("member-vars")

Coding standards for Rational Robot

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Naming Convention - Module-level variables ("member-vars")

Description
If variables are placed outside a function body their scope will be different from a local scope variable, therefore we flag those variables with a prefix "m_" that is very common in object oriented languages even though SQABasic is not an object oriented programming language.

Syntax
"m_" + [Prefix]+[ShortDescription]

[Prefix] is a lowercase letter (either "n", s", "str", "d" or "t" appropriate to the type it represents) [ShortDescription] is a corresponding name of what the variable stands for. If [ShortDescription] consists of more then one word these are all separated using a capital letter for each new word.

Examples
· m_nCountDatabaseRecords
· m_strLastname
· m_sPassword

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Other Interview Questions

• Rational Robot's Coding Standards
• Naming Convention - Local scope variables
• Naming Convention - Module-level variables ("member-vars")
• Naming Convention - Arrays
• Naming Convention - Globals
• Naming Convention - Constants
• Naming Convention - Functions
• Naming Convention - Scripts
• Naming Convention - Libraries
• Naming Convention - Verification points
• Functions - Introduction
• Functions - Parameters
• Functions - Indention
• Functions - Return value
• Functions - Error handling
• Functions - Size
• Scripts and libraries - Introduction
• Scripts and libraries - How to deal both scripts and libs
• Scripts and libraries - Size
• Documentation - Introduction
• Documentation - Functions
• Documentation - Scripts
• Documentation - Module level variables
• Documentation - Libraries