There is quite a few people out there (including myself) who prefer adding 'this.' to their instance variables in order to be able to differentiate them from local ones. I am aware there are tons of people who passionately hate this kind of convention. However, I am just wondering if it is going to be considered a violation new coding guidelines?
Oleg -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Dever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 02:04 To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: [HttpClient] Proposed style change > > >>I propose that we change the pattern for instance variables to >>^_?[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$ so that we will allow leading underscores but will >>not insist on it. >> >> > >Uuuugh, please no! Besides being ugly, it's worth sticking to the Sun >coding >style (as is the default with checkstyle). That way, anyone who has done any >Java will be immediately familiar with it. > > > I'd agree with Simon on this. Leading (and trailing) underscores are ugly (just look a Python!). If its too difficult to determine if a variable is a member or a local, then the method is probablly too big. And you can always prefix this to a member for clarity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
