>So you do have a point here - this is the case where prefixing has some real advantages for us lazy programmers :).

All good programmers are lazy. :)

>>One other (slight) advantage to using prefixes (that occurred to me as I read another thread) is that there's no danger of using a reserved word as a field name.
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>I think I wrote that :)

:) This is also a (again slight) advantage of Hungarian: I can use "normal" identifiers like "count" and "type" without worrying that they'll collide with reserved words.