Hi all,
Leif pointed out that I've been doing this, and now I'd like to propose this as
an official style guideline.
Within a class member function, access to class members should use the
explicit "this->foo" syntax.
The rationale for this is that it makes it blindingly obvious that class
members are being accessed in a way that naming conventions do not. We do not
have a consistent naming convention for member variables, and at any rate,
those conventions never apply to accessing member functions. Our code is often
difficult to read because it takes a long time to figure out whether names that
are in scope are members, local variables, or file-locals.
Obviously, there are cases where using "this->" is overkill, so I'm happy for
this to be a judgement call.
J
