[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-09-28 16:33:47 +0000, El SysMan said:

>  Just interesting is the name for VMS coding style, any references ?
>  Hungarian ? White ? Any other ?

The old unique-by-convention symbol naming scheme is obviously 
analogous to / derivative from Hungarian notation, but AFAIK doesn't 
have a specific name.

The manual that this material was included within seems to have 
disappeared from the current VSI documentation, but here's an older 
copy; see chapter 3 for details:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04623122

There wasn't a source code formatter around, though astyle and some 
other tools have been used in more recent years. These tools do not 
apply the variable naming.

OpenVMS itself commonly uses SDL (available on the freeware), and SDL 
can and usually does generate symbols using the traditional 
symbol-naming format.


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