Hungarian Notation
Hungarian notation has commonly been associated with prefixing variables with information about their type--for instance, whether a variable is an integer or a double. This is usually not a useful thing to do because your IDE will tell you the type of a variable, and it can lead to bizarre and complicated looking names. The original idea behind Hungarian notation, however, was more general and useful: to create more abstract "types" that describe how the variable is
used rather than how the variable is
represented. This can be useful for keeping pointers and integers from intermixing, but it can also be a powerful technique for helping to separate concepts that are often used together, but that should not be mixed.
