>Hi Cetin,
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>prefixes tell me the type of the variable. Could it be mis-prefixed? Of course, it's dynamic type assignment in VFP. However, for all practical purposes, and that's my point, being practical, hungarian notation tells me the type of the variable.
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>Hank

That is a misperception. It sounds like it does but not and generally just serves as redundancy. ie:
What is the prefix for Northwind Employees.BirthDate? D? On VFP yes but as soon as it is upsized it is T. Why would I think BirthDate is something other than date or datetime and prefix it? D is not helping me either. If I do it T, then it is not till upsizing. Or why would I ever prefix CompanyName? Or nAmount - is it an integer, float, double, money ...? Does it meatter? Yes it does and n doesn't tell me which one it is. If I do it i for integer and later decide to make a double would I find and replace all occurences? In real world applications database column names are not prefixed with types. That is something I hear from VFP developers only. Some weird naming conventions like customer_cCompanyName :) Redundancy. Recently I experienced it first hand that prefixing worked against me where date fields become datetime after upsizing (as I said it sticked to me as a habit, because of posting on forums, unfortunately and I use it).
Cetin