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What is the meaning of T in parameter variable?
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01117544
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>>I have been meaning to ask this question for a while. Many times I see that people use prefix "t" when identifying parameter variables. For example:
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>>LPARAMETERS tnMyNumber, tlMyLogicalVar, lcMyCharacter
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>>What does the "t" stand for?
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>Interesting question. I know that t indicates parameter. I'm not sure it has a special meaning (hopefully I'm wrong), it's more like a commonly accepted convention.


My guess is that T was a letter not identifying any data type (before VFPT came up with type datetime) so they used it in order to differentiate it from a data type. But I maybe mistaken too.
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