Re: Private variables question

Tom Corey wrote:

Hmmm, that has a certain appeal. Especially in light of our 75,000
lines of
distinctly-procedural-despite-having-been-written-in-Delphi-spaghetti-
co de.

It struck me odd at first, but it saves me lots of grief. I run
CodeHealer (highly recommended) against all of my projects, especially
new ones that I'm taking over, and I was surprised to see how often
local variables hide things. Using a standard prefix avoids me having
to come up with some kind of meaningful-yet-different local variable
name.


/rant narrowly averted

I might join you in that rant.

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Regards,
Bruce McGee
Glooscap Software
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