Well yeah, and typing doesn’t need enforcement by compilers, we just have to manually check their usages. Maybe we should go back to Hungarian notation!
I mean, snark aside, I really don’t think that variable/field names should be overloaded with this functionality. But I have to agree that this functionality is indeed not much more than your mentioned convention.
I mean, snark aside, I really don’t think that variable/field names should be overloaded with this functionality. But I have to agree that this functionality is indeed not much more than your mentioned convention.