Don't worry, Michael, we're all laughing
with you, not
at you.
You have been misinformed: Hungarian notation is
not the way the (
Java) world does things. Says Bruce Eckel in his book,
Thinking in Java, p. 1052:
"Hungarian notation is the worst example of [creat[ing] your own "decorated" private data member names], where you attach extra characters that indicate data type, use, location, etc., as if you were writing assembly language and the compiler provided no extra assistance at all. These notations are confusing, difficult to read, and unpleasant to enforce and maintain. Let classes and packages do the name scoping for you."
So I think Mr. Eckel is trying to dissuade you from using Hungarian notation.
It's a bad thing, don't do it!
Art