Technical Difficulties from on Top of the Mountain: Banging my head on the interface

Technical Difficulties from on Top of the Mountain

2004-04-08

Banging my head on the interface

Its the little things that really mess me up, and put me in a real good mood. Like consistent capitalization. Personally, I'd be happy if I never had to press the shift key while programming, but when I do, don't make me go look up which variation I need each time I go to use it.

For example, I was working with a class called Client and it had a property:

{
  protected:
    SessionID   m_sessionID ;
}

And then it had a get() accessor for it. All well and good, so I added some code into my project:

  printf("init: session=%s\n", clientptr-> getSessionID().c_str()) ;

But it didn't work. Why? Because it was getSessionId(), not getSessionID(). Id? Id? Don't they like make video games or something? (massive thrashing ensues)

OK, fine. I'll get the session ~~idd~~ id. You know, if it was get_session_id() I wouldn't be having this problem. Oh well, at least its not lpszSessionID().

¶ 12:30 AM

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