[cmake-developers] Questions about coding conventions

[Daniel Pfeifer]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Tobias Hunger <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io> wrote:
> On Fr, 2016-06-10 at 15:30 +0200, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
>> Naming conventions: Classes are named  cmLikeThis. Member functions
>> and member variables are named LikeThis. Local variables are named
>> likeThis. Members are always accessed with `this->`. So far it is
>> pretty consistent. But how to name free functions and macros? I have
>> seen all kinds of variations.
>
> May I asked why "this->" is used so often? I find it totally annoying to skip
> this line noise all the time and I never encountered this convention before.

If used consistently, it indicates that you are dealing with a member.
I personally prefer `this->` over `m_`. With semantic syntax
highlighting you probably don't need either of them. But then again,
you often look at code that does not have semantic highlighting (eg.
inside diffs).