I have to say that the underscore tradition is an esthetic issue about which there is some strong disagreement.
I find it particularly distasteful. And, for what it is worth, I think that the Sun coding conventions recommend against it. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Gilles Sadowski < gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > I noticed that you have code where fields and constructor arguments > > have the same name. As far as I remember that is not good practise, > > but I might be wrong :-)? > > Most (all?) of CM follows this convention. > > [Personally I prefer that fieds use names prefixed by an underscore > character so that when method or constructor arguments reflect the meaning > of those fields, one does not have to use the "this" keyword (i.e. I use > the > convention where the '_' character means "This is an instance variable").] >
