Re: Private variables question

Bob Swart <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:481874BA.8070404@xxxxxxxxxx:

Hi Phill,

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.

F for "Field" I reckon.

That could indeed be it :) Knew there had to be a simple explanation :)

just wondered why it seemed to be a convention ?

A bit like the I prefix which stands for "Interface" or the T prefix
which stands for "Type" (where old versions of Visual C++ used the "C"
prefix for "Class").

Yeah I do thend to use TWhatever, someone else mentioned using AWhatever for
argument, bout the only place I have seen this (that I can remember) is
Indy.

Cheers.

Phill.

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