right. yes I hear you on that one. thanks Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1:56 PM Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: how safe are close variable names do people reckon? >I think they're perfectly safe. I don't think a compiler, language, > preprocessor or anything like that will have a problem with similar but > different variables. I think the biggest danger here is with the > programmer. > If the variables aren't descriptive enough or are too similar than > mistakes > might be made or it might get confusing, especially when maintaining the > script or program. > > > -- > Christopher > chaltain@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Chapman > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 10:49 PM > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jawsscripts] how safe are close variable names do people reckon? > > Mighty Scripters. > > Just checking on general thoughts here, but, how safe do people reckon it > would be, re potential confusion of processing, to be dealing with > variable > names that are like reeeally close together? like, say, sLine, and sLine1 > for example? > > you reckon the scripting engine, or whatever it's called, would be totally > comfortable with that? or, do people reckon one ought to avoid making > variables that are so close in structure that their string names are only > different by the omission of one single character at the end, would be in > any way dangerous? > > thanks. > > geoff c. > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts