On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Joe Yoder wrote:
>> If you always used m., you would not have tripped. :)
>>
> Thats what I always did in the DOS product. It seems styles have
> changed
> and I don't see "m." in other peoples code anymore. I suspect that
> prefixing names with "ln" for local numeric has taken it's place
> but have
> not officially learned that this is the case. I'm trying to decide
> whether to stay with what I know works or try to adopt current
> approaches
> as I figure them out. Any advice?
The explicit prefix 'm.' is what is known in other languages as a
namespace. You'll find them used a lot in Python, which has as one of
its core mantras "Explicit is better than implicit".
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