Private variables question

Hi,

This is more from a mater of interest than any technical reason, but there
seems to be a lot of code around where the private variables are called
FSomething e.g.

TYPE TSomeType=class(object)
PRIVATE
FLocalVar : INTEGER;
PUBLIC
PROPERTY LocalVar : INTEGER READ FLocalVar;
END;

What I guess i'm asking is why prefix it with 'F' ? I have been tending to
use 'Pr' in my own code for Private, I guess the compiler does not care,
just wondered why it seemed to be a convention ?

Cheers.

Phill.
.

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