recommend a naming convention?

[human flyParticipant]

doh…
please recommend a naming convention for my parameters
for easiest management via Modulator List:
(so that i can order by name easily and have things
appearing in convenient series)
-regular 4 partial structure presets, with multipart(8)
so, for example:

partial1, pitch envelope T1 for Part1 could be:

pT1_P1_pt1
pT2_P1_pt1
etc.

or:

pt1P1_pT1
pt1P1_pT2
etc.

or? .. (ie: by prefix or by suffix?)

i suppose i really want them to appear grouped in
their parameter order. i guess i can just order them
by VSTIndex. it would be nice, visually, to order them
by name too. sorry for this simplistic lazy question
but i guess it’s an issue we all face, and i want to
nail it before i do a load of work and regret it afterwards
(am at fresh rebuild stage, just idly mulling this over..)

edit: mm, prefix, yeah?

[human flyParticipant]

answering my own question again.
easiest way is evidently prefix. makes it much easier/quicker
to replicate for following partials and parts; i can
then just run down my list changing numbers. doh doh doh.
(and they should appear ok in the Mod’List)
(not *completely* irrelevant if i have to rewrite all the
methods…)

ie:
pt1P1_pT1
pt1P1_pT2
pt1P1_pT3 …

and

pt1P2_pT1
pt1P2_pT2 …

and

pt2P1_pT1
pt2P1_pT2 …

etc.

[Mr.ToRParticipant]

You can use the following.
.Net Naming Guidelines

[human flyParticipant]

cool link !

i like camelCasing right now 😉

but f’kn *underscores*…i’m sure that was my problem
with something where three variable all started with
the same 4 character prefix, then underscore, then the
rest of the name…just would not work. and then i got
rid of the underscore, bingo.

bookmarked. cheers.

[human flyParticipant]

underscores… should one really avoid underscores?
i find them really useful and only had that one problem
once.

if i use prefixes, lots of modulator names will start
the same way, followed by underscore – big little dilemma..
so many panels have underscores in the names without
problems.

i’m going to carry on: prefix, underscore, name
see if i hit that problem again, see what happens.
some names in panels use capitals at the start – you’re
not supposed to – so i don’t know how much of a big deal
it is.

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