On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:40:05PM -0400, jim barchuk wrote: > The point of all this is to make it it easier to read -later-. A > tbl_ is clearly a table and a b_ is clearly a boolean without having > to think about it or 'remember' or look it up elsewhere. Such as 'I > need to test this variable but is it a boolean or a text, now I > gotta go find where it's defined.' Writing code is > easy. Today. Troubleshooting an obscure error months later, or > modifying things to add a new feature is -work-. :) A little up > front efort -will- help further down the line.
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