On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> I'd be interested to know: of those people who are in favour of >> removing the prefix, how many regularly have to deal with functions >> that are longer than two pages (a "page" is however much code you can >> see at a time in your coding environment)? 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. > > > 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.
The only concrete use case I have is what I said in my original post (the paragraph you didn't quote): when debugging in gdb it's useful to know if a variable came from the current stack frame or from a stack frame further up. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
