>>>>>>Are you using naming that reuses identifiers by changing case? Have you run out of all possible alphanumeric combinations or what?
>>>>
>>>>I do this routinely to simplify remembering form and report names:
>>>>FrmCustomer frmCustomer = new FrmCustomer();
>>>>
>>>>Is that frowned upon?
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>>>Nope, that's precisely what is best practice in naming conventions... You can tell immediately from the casing what the scope of the variable is...
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>>The scope? I thought that in Bill's example it distinguished between a class type and an instance of a class. No?
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>Yes in this example that's true.
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>But:
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>MyName
>myName
>_myName
>this.MyName
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>are all valid names but the casing tells you the scope of the variable.

Please go on. I sincerely am in learning mode here. What is the scope of each of those?