FWIW, I did a quick poll of the people in our Gfx daily. Here are the results:
For aArguments: Bas Milan Matt Kats Against aArguments: Me No strong opinion: Sotoro Lee Benoit Nical Mason -Jeff On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Nick Fitzgerald <nfitzger...@mozilla.com> wrote: > (Posted this reply to the wrong thread, reposting to the right one... >_<) > > One more group of defectors within Mozilla. From the DevTools coding > standards[0]: > > """ > > - aArguments aAre the aDevil (don't use them please) > > """ > > Although, there are still some files in tree with the legacy style. > > [0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/CodingStandards#Code_style > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Honza Bambas <hbam...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> I'd be happy to support >> >> removing the prefix if people also commit to splitting any giant >> >> functions they touch as part of the prefix removal. >> > >> > >> > That's (sorry) non-sense. In almost all cases longer methods/functions >> > cannot be just split. It would probably make the code just much harder >> to >> > read and maintain (with a lot of new arguments missing the 'a' prefix ;)) >> > and is not necessary. Not an argument IMHO. >> >> Can you point me to a couple of examples of long functions that you >> think cannot be split reasonably? I'm curious to see what it looks >> like. Obviously functions with giant switch statements and the like >> are exceptions and should be treated exceptionally but I would like to >> see some "regular" functions that can't be split. >> >> Cheers, >> kats >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform