Re: underscore prefix

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From: Rakesh Rajan (RakeshRajan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 08:49:01 -0700

Hmm...I have always been in the opinion that whenever we have an exposed member like a public variable or property etc, we should avoid Hungarian Notation and prefixes of any type. But for private entities, I would use m_ or a prefix... 

-- 
Rakesh Rajan
"Scott Allen" wrote:
> I think the guidlines actually discourage use of m_ when it says "Do
> not apply a prefix to field names or static field names."
> 
> --
> Scott
> http://www.OdeToCode.com
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:40:41 +0300, "Tamir Khason"
> <tamir-NOSPAM@tcon-NOSPAM.co.il> wrote:
> 
> >This is olb naming convention for private variables. In new MS naming
> >convention you should use m_ as prefix for private members
> >More information can be found here
> >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconnamingguidelines.asp
> >or use FxCop to validate
> >http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/
> 
>

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