Including "type" in the definition of an object
is what is described in the Hungarian notation in
Code Complete... he has a large discussion on it and a
couple of tables....<br><br>I've used the underscore
infront of a member  variable to indicate an instance
variable and nothing to describe the local... Sometimes
this is an "overformalization" but if you can get
everyone on the team (and these conventions are mainly
used for code in a team environment or if you drop
dead tomorrow, someone ELSE might have to maintain) to
follow the convention, more power to you... Young kids
coming out of college have never worked in a team
environment and have never had to maintain someone else's
cryptic spagetti code; and just don't understand the need
for standardization. They also don't understand that
if they change code to get their section to work;
and yet break everyone else's functionality that it's
THEIR problem not everyone else's.<br><br>I guess it's
just my prior military need for standardization that
drives me...<br><br>Stephen
McConnell<br>http://www.crosslogic.com