>I think you guys miss the point. Naming conventions are *not* helping us to read the code. I've never felt that naming convention helped me in any way. Whether or not using naming conventions, I still should know when, why and what a variable could/should contain. You can't tell this story with naming conventions. In good coding practises, naming conventions (aside from giving a variable a descriptive name) are at the far bottom of the list making your programs clear. It is about irrelevant.

Don't you ever work with other people's code or go back to your own code much, much later? That's when naming conventions shine. When I can pick up a piece of code I wrote 5 years ago and immediately know the data type of the variables involved, I save a lot of time and energy and am much less likely to make mistakes in modifying that code.

Tamar