Interesting. In the Visual Foxpro 3 Codebook, it says that the codebook's standards are based on Microsoft's Hungarian Notation. I suppose they were only referring to the concept and not necessarily the character representations themselves.

Alan

>>Hi All,
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>>Like many of you, I use the t prefix to reference parameters or arguments. Does anyone know why t and not a (argument) or p (parameter)?
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>The t was first codified for xBase in Flash Creative Management's "Coding Standards and Guidelines", later incorporated into the first Codebook.
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>yag chose t for parameTer and g for Global to avoid confusion between Public and Private.
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>Dan