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What is the meaning of T in parameter variable?
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28/04/2006 14:18:48
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
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>>I like this, "transient". This give the prefix a meaning and therefore makes it easier to "identify". Thank you.
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>>>My strong guess is that if "p" is for private, "l" for local, then "t" is for transient. As obviously, the data type seems to be indicated by the second letter (c, n, l, etc)
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>I saw another prefix that I like - but haven't developed a habit for it yet. R meaning passed parameter by reference!

This is very logical. However, don't you find that there are only very few cases where you pass something by reference? Unless it is an array. At least in my code, I can think of very, very few cases of passing by reference.
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