Jan-
the upside is you dont have to look up a variable to know what type it is:
zVariable is Null termed string
bVariable is boolean
nVariable is an Integer
fVariable is a float
dVariable is a double..
cVariable is a char
Martin
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easy peasy..Shawshank Redemption
> Subject: Hungarian Notation [Was Re: Too many aliases]
> From: Jan@stripped
> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 09:58:43 -0700
> To: mysql@stripped
>
> > From: Johnny Withers <johnny@stripped>
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
>
> "The original Hungarian notation... was invented by Charles Simonyi... who later
> became Chief Architect at Microsoft."
>
> Ugh. That explains a lot!
>
> The only time I let types intrude on names is with booleans, which I try to name with
> a state-of-being verb, such as "has_paid", "is_member", "has_children", etc.
>
> > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@stripped> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, while we're on the subject of SQL style, can anyone tell me why I'm
> >> always seeing people prefixing the name of a table with something like
> >> "tbl?"
>
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