>>However this discussion is more about the hungarian notation, where the prefix is indicating type and scope. Since 99% of all variables are (should be) local there is no need to indicate scope unless it is a public or private.
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>FWIW, I agree with you on the scope issue. I use a scope prefix only for the rare public variable, but I find the one letter type indicator extremely valuable.

I find the scope prefix to be helpful. For example, you don't have to scroll up to the LPARAMETERS statement to determine whether a variable was passed as a parameter or declared as LOCAL in a routine.

Doug