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in reply to To initialise or not to initialise?

It's more work definitely but it generally makes the code more readable (for instance, if I've no idea what 'page' means, I at least know the variable $page is going to be used for some numerical value).
If you have no idea what $page means, then, IMO, the name is not descriptive enough. If you use $page_nr, that would make it clear that it's used for a numerical value. $page could just as well contain a string with a PostScript rendition of a page.

Arjen

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Re^2: To initialise or not to initialise?
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2004 at 23:55 UTC
    Would this be a good place to suggest using Hungarian Notation? my $lpszhwndPage;