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
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