> Karl Tomlinson <mailto:mozn...@karlt.net> > July 7, 2015 at 12:55 AM > > I find the 'a' prefix useful to tell me that this variable has the > value that was provided to the function. > (I'm assuming that the prefix is used with this convention.) > > There's no additional safety enforced, but I find the single > letter helps readability. > > For example, if I want to know where the value of a variable comes > from, and it starts with 'a', then I know immediately that I can > skip looking at that particular function in the call chain/graph > and I need to look at the calling function(s). > > That advantage does not exist in a declaration that is not a > definition; this is only helpful in the definition. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FWIW, as a tech writer that has to take all this stuff and make sense of it in documentation, I dislike "aFoo" but I'm fine with "mFood" and such to differentiate methods from properties from constants, etc.
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