On: My personal C coding style as of late 2023

[avgcorrection]

What's the point of the `k` prefix?

[smithza → avgcorrection]

k for konstant

[dkersten → smithza]

IMHO that’s much uglier than using caps.

Sometimes when I use C++, I will namespace them however:

    namespace constants {
        static constexpr int name = 42;
    }
    …
    int x = constants::name;

The exact name of the namespace would depend on the use and could be something more descriptive.

[avgcorrection → smithza]

Yes, that's what it stands for. What's the point of using any prefix at all?

[wrs → avgcorrection]

So you don’t have to wonder if it’s a variable. Old Mac style uses prefixes: kConstant, gGlobalVar, TType, mMemberVar. Remember this was when all coding was done in black and white in a plain text editor.

[colejohnson66 → avgcorrection]

Hungarian notation

[Dylan16807 → colejohnson66]

Hungarian notation is for being more specific than the type system allows.

When the type is already "constexpr int", that k isn't helping.