>>Hello Cetin,
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>>It makes sense to use naming conventions in my opinion to etablish a standard that is useful specially in team programming.
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>>That way you don't have to do anything special for the guy who maintains your code afterwards. If you are the only one working on your code, then it wouldn't make much difference.
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>>While I agree about the absense of the need to use 'i' to indicate integer in the second letter of the variable name instead of 'n', I think applying naming convenctions when naming fields in a table might come handy when writing backend independant App considering those field names could be MS SQL or Oracle keywords otherwise.
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>Bob,
>I pay attention to keywords. However I find naming conventions no usefull than strong type checking which I don't see as a big saver.
>This could be debated long but would simply be unnecessary, just another user preference.
>Cetin

Hi Cetin. Sticking my neck out here but I agree on both points. I do use a consistent naming convention (my own) but the typing issue has never bothered me or caused me problems. As you say, open to debate and each to their own :)