There is an option in Eclipse to force the use of 'this.' for
members.  I have that option set and don't use the prefix.

On Feb 23, 12:39 am, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote:
> I'm not fond of 'this.member'. It seems to combine the worst of both
> worlds -- an optional prefix that may or may not be used in different
> places.
>
> Though I understand why people use it in setters and constructors to
> avoid manging their argument names -- real prefixes avoid that need.
>
> On Feb 22, 8:05 am, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I myself am not fond of prefixes, especially since languages like Java
> > already have "this." when you need to distinguish local vars vs
> > members. Also, modern IDEs highlight fields differently from local
> > variables.
>
> > It does make sense however on a project like Android where not
> > everybody is necessarily using an IDE. And it's just a coding
> > convention :)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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