I'm not fond of 'this.member'. It seems to combine the worst of both
worlds -- an optional prefix that may or may not be used in different
places.

Though I understand why people use it in setters and constructors to
avoid manging their argument names -- real prefixes avoid that need.

On Feb 22, 8:05 am, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
> I myself am not fond of prefixes, especially since languages like Java
> already have "this." when you need to distinguish local vars vs
> members. Also, modern IDEs highlight fields differently from local
> variables.
>
> It does make sense however on a project like Android where not
> everybody is necessarily using an IDE. And it's just a coding
> convention :)

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