On (11 May 95) Eric Weigel wrote to Stephen Lindholm...

 EW> What is a BOB?
 
A light, but audible, blow, spelt in caps. 
 
 EW> The other problem with "Hungarian" notation is what
happens when you
 EW> have to change the type of an existing variable or (really important!)
 EW> structure member. The meaning and usage may be identical, but now you
 EW> have to edit perhaps hundreds of lines of code.
 
Good point. 
 
 EW> OS/2 2.x header files are a fine example.  Many things changed from
 EW> USHORT to ULONG in the transition from 1.x  Most of them changed
 EW> their names, some didn't.

My rule of thumb is now that one should use typedefs for Hungarian notation.

typedef BOB unsigned short;
BOB BOB42;

instead of

unsigned short us42;

Does that cover everything? Judicious use of typedefs should fix it all.

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