Jeff Gilbert writes: > I work with a number of these, but after a page or two, why is it at all > relevant which vars were args? For information flow? Should we mark locals > that purely derive from args as `aFoo` as well? Long functions (which have > poor readability anyway) generally have so much going on that the trivia of > which vars are args does not seem very useful.. > > I do not see how `aFoo` helps here, so please expand on this.
A simple variable name, such as "font" for example, may identify any of a number of fonts. Such simple names, without any qualifier in the name, are often used in loops, for example, because it is the most important font in the immediate context. However a simple variable may also be used in a parameter list because when looking at the parameter list it is obvious which font is relevant in the interface. That means that if "font" is seen in the body of a function, the first question that arises is "which font?" If the variable is called "aFont" then we know which font because we know what function we are in. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
