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Does anyone know where this convention came from?
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Hi Lisa,

Nice to see your name up here.

I thought it was *you* who told me that t stood for token at one of Michael Rychter's conferences in Sydney. I must be getting old.

Cheers,

Andrew

>I saw that also...
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>>>A temporary variable -- one which will be used quickly in a given context and then disposed of or reused.
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>... but to be honest I wouldn't want to think of it this way, even though the "given context" part would indeed apply to parameters. There might too many other "temp" variables that I wouldn't want to confuse with parameters, so I wouldn't give them the same prefix!
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>When I want to rationalize the t prefix internally, I think of it as meaning "transfer".
>
>>L<


If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?


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