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> "In Simonyi's version of > Hungarian notation, every > variable was prefixed with a lower case tag that indicated > the kind of thing > that the variable contained. " I have always regarded that with horror, but it's a matter of personal taste. Names are there to identify objects, not to contain all the properties of the object. Don't try to pack them with bit-significant meaning; apart from anything else, you don't want to change the name of something when its properties change. The main debate about naming is the scope of uniqueness of a name. Should the title of a chapter have the same element name as the title of a section? As far as the internal syntax of a name is concerned, the only important thing is to try and be consistent: use hyphens or underscores or camelCase, but not all three interchangeably. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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