Re: Private variables question

Phill Harvey-Smith laid this down on his screen :
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.

As every body said it is F from Field.

Me on the other hand I couldn't care less what the prefix is (finally) I just use the auto complete feature of the IDE which auto prefix the private members with F and it doesn't give me an option which I can change it. So it is easier to type
property Count : integer; CTRL+SHIFT+C
and let the IDE create the private variable for me along with the setter method and let it at that.

Regards
Yannis.

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- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


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