Symbol Name Checking
DAC gives you the possibility to bring in certain naming conventions
relating to the naming of user-defined symbols, and to check whether the
names you have defined in the project correspond to the conventions
assigned. If the names of the symbols in your project are standardized, then
finding your way around in the project is much easier. In this way you can
tell, by looking at what follows a variable name, what its type is, whether
the variable is local, static, global, etc. These conventions are introduced
for reasons of legibility and intelligibility of the code written.
An example of this is the set of rules known as Hungarian
notation. Hungarian notation has been accepted as a standard according
to which the variable name is preceded by key letters describing which type
of data the variable represents. Using this notation allows you to identify
variable type using the prefix it carries. These prefixes are also used
together, according to demand (e.g. a long pointer to string with a
null-ending would have the prefix "lpsz").
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