> From: Johnny Withers <joh...@pixelated.net> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
"The original Hungarian notation... was invented by Charles Simonyi... who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft." Ugh. That explains a lot! The only time I let types intrude on names is with booleans, which I try to name with a state-of-being verb, such as "has_paid", "is_member", "has_children", etc. > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mike Diehl <mdi...@diehlnet.com> wrote: > >> Well, while we're on the subject of SQL style, can anyone tell me why I'm >> always seeing people prefixing the name of a table with something like >> "tbl?" ---------------- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -- H. L. Mencken :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
