Aug. 28, 2008
1:10 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>wrote: Russ Paielli wrote:
Lets not forget that C++ and Java use zero-character identifiers for "self", and I don't hear a din of complaints that it harms readability.
I'm not so sure about that. Frequently people adopt conventions such as always writing this->x, or naming all instance variables with an "m_" prefix, suggesting that zero characters is considered a problem by many.
And that's despite the fact that they have more assistance from IDEs for autocomplete, highlighting, etc. George