Yea it's a shame that Hungarian notation has gotten such a bad rap. Done right i find it occasionally useful. Done the way most windows programmers have been taught is an abomination.

Can you give an example(or a link to an article discussing this)? I've never had the displeasure of working with the Windows API(though I often shook my head when I saw code for it)

Basically he intended 'type' as not 'datatype' as in 'dwSomething' (for double word) but the purpose of the variable. For example, if you're using an integer variable to store the length of some entity, you would name it something like 'lenSomething' as opposed to 'dwSomething'.

Storing the type of the variable makes little sense as in most cases it is only a quick grep away.

In the example you used, "context" seems to be a more appropriate word than "type".

/bites tongue, and provides links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation#Systems_vs._...

https://www.google.com/search?q=hungarian+notation

That Wikipedia page does such a better job of describing it than I did.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html You have to read a bit, hungarian notation doesn't really show up until maybe 4/5 of the way through.