Martin, > Now a coding question : > > In some (didn't check them all btw). The init of an instance variable is > done with this.Blabla = "bla"; > Only in the code this.Blabla is never used, only Blabla (it works > I know..). > Is it just my horrible view on programming or it "nicer/neater" to use > this.Blabla anywhere to reference the instance variable? > (I'm using a lot of the same variable names (bad in thinking one > up, and the > dummy1, dummy2 isn't very descriptive) and using the this. is pretty nice > then). > Let me know what you're opinion about this is.. >
Ahh, love those style questions. My personal preferences: I tend to use this.blah only when blah by itself would be ambiguous. This is usually the case in the setter for blah and perhaps a constructor in which a value for blah is passed. It saves me thinking up new variable names which are usually contrived; something like aBlah, theBlah, newBlah, _blah, etc. I don't like the use of this.blah everywhere. When I am reading the code for an object (class), I like to "live" in it, to assume its context and this.blah just becomes distracting. Nor do I like the use of _blah to distinguish private fields but some would disagree (Simeon?). Your religion may vary. Conor
