There is no hard rules in how you must name your variable but it is always a good practice to follow the naming convention to increase your program readability. Other programmers who work on your program can understand your code easier.
The commonly used naming convention in Foxpro programming is a two-letter prefix concatenated to the variable name.
The first letter will describe the scope of the variable, whether the variable scope is local, private, public or paramenter.
l - localp - private
g - public (global)
t - parameter
The second character denotes the type of variable.
c - character
y - currency
d - date
t - datetime
b - double
f - float
l - boolean
n - number
0 - object