>>I honestly don't see the harm, particularly in a weakly typed language like FoxPro. Can you hit the highlights? -- I don't have that issue of FoxTalk any more. (Pitched them all the last time I moved, including the ones I was in).
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>The jest was the good names should lead you to the type. The exception would be where you might need a prefix to make up for non-creative naming. Scope is always local, and should be declared as such, with the exception of ThisApp. VFP can be pretty literate, not that I claim to have read Knuth's work. (I did read Coders at Work, but haven't finished the chapter on Knuth.)
>The main harm for me is just readability. The other is, just like comments, after changes they may lie.

We may still disagree about Hungarian notation. Or maybe I really am living in the past ;-) I know they have helped me at times. In .NET, sure, usually you are referencing class properties so not much need.

Funny that you mention "Coders At Work." On the train commute to work I generally carry two books in my backpack, one fiction and one nonfiction. The current non is CAW. Great stuff. I consider myself a very good coder but not great, so it's fascinating to hear the perspective of those who really have left footprints.