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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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>>For the sake of those lurking:
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>>- In this case, fields and variables can't be confused because you can't use fields on the left side of an assignment =.
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>Readability decrases because the same name could be a variable or a field depending on wich site of assigment it is.
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>>- Readability gets more difficult (IMO) because there are more characters for the brain to interpret
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>Reability increases because m. prefix tells the brain right away that its a variable not a field and vise versa.
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>>- The "tiny increase" could get very large inside a loop. I've timed the differences to be three times slower.
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>I just run a test: 1,000,000 itterations on AMD 1.3Ghz: With m. .590 sec, w/o .571. The difference is realle negligible.
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>IMO it's all a metter of personal preferences.
a matter :)

Yes, I agree, though I never use m. at the left side of =.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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