I don't know about Macromedia documentation, but this is a common 
practice.  It is called Hungarian Notation.  I believe it is named after 
the Microsoft Engineer who started using it.  You can search on Google 
about it, but here are some links:

  
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsgen/html/hunganotat.asp>
  <http://web.umr.edu/~cpp/common/hungarian.html>
  <http://www.gregleg.com/oldHome/hungarian.html>



At 02:06 PM 11/1/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>Am working thru Ben Forta's Certification Study Guide and have a
>question. He makes reference in a couple of places to MM's documentation
>and training materials that recommend prefixing complex data (arrays,
>structures, etc) with lowercase letters (ex: a for arrays, st for
>structures). I don't have access to any formalized training materials,
>but I am curious as to what MM documentation he is referring to. Anyone
>know?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris Montgomery        monty @ airtightweb.com
>
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