On 01/06/2014 08:35 PM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 wrote: > And a '_' at the end of member names requires less typing than 'm' + capital > letter?
This started, and still largely is, an Ion convention. Lots of existing code doesn't use it, and I haven't much worked on code that does. But as I said, I'm not one of the SpiderMonkey hackers who strongly cares about prefixes or suffixes (although I think -Wshadow is worth using, somehow). So mFoo versus foo_ is not significantly different to me. But it does seem to me that mFoo *is* slightly more trouble than _ at end. _ at end doesn't affect any of the rest of the name. mFoo in contrast forces the first "real" letter to be capitalized, and often that's a floating capital in the middle of lowercase letters. When typing mFoo, the "F" is a precision-strike capital letter. Don't touch too early, don't touch too late, or you mistype. With "_" you can sometimes get away holding it slightly long because it doesn't "bleed" into the rest of the identifier. Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
