For what it's worth, I recently spent half a day attempting to solve a bug which would have been trivial if `a` and `m` prefixes had been present in that part of the code.
While I find these notations ugly, they're also useful. Cheers, David On 06/09/2019 12:57, Honza Bambas wrote: > On 2019-09-05 23:14, Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: >> Yeah, let's not add a new prefix please. >> >> I don't like aFoo either, though it's everywhere so consistency is >> better than nothing :/. >> >> That being said, it shouldn't be hard to write some clang plugin or >> such that automatically renames function arguments to stop using aFoo, >> should we want to do that... Just throwing it in the air, and >> volunteering if we agreed to do that ;) > > I personally find it useful (the 'a' prefix) same as the 'm' prefix. > When I trace back where from an argument is coming, when it bubbles down > few functions, it's good to see when it changes from 'aArg' to 'arg' -> > ah, here we set the value! > > -hb- > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
