Notably, aFoo is neither Google nor Rust style. If we didn't already have
aFoo as a style, we certainly wouldn't adopt it today.

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 6:59 AM Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 9:40 AM Andrew Sutherland
> <asutherl...@asutherland.org> wrote:
> > But of course, if this was all being done from inside an editor or a
> > debugger, no matter what tricks searchfox can do, they can't help you
> > elsewhere.
>
> Editors can of course do things of their own to help you on this
> front. For example, Eclipse CDT has semantic highlighting and can
> highlight parameters differently from local variables. The C++
> language server clangd (which is designed to be able to plug into any
> editor) recently acquired this ability as well.
>
> I'm not saying this is a reason to retire the 'aFoo' convention (I'd
> wait until technologies like the above are a bit more ubiquitous
> before doing that), just mentioning the above tools because I've found
> them very useful for editing Mozilla C++ code.
>
> Cheers,
> Botond
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