Timeline for What naming Convention to Use for C# Function Parameters
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| Jul 13, 2011 at 8:51 | comment | added | user8709 |
The p_ (or just p) for parameter is an old convention that has been used a lot in C++ and C. It tends to go with l_ for local and (in C++) m_ for member-variable. I've seen it in Pascal, Modula 2 and Ada too, so it's not just a C-family thing. It is kinda love-it-or-hate-it, though. I've used it almost obsessively, my excuse being Steve Haighs reasoning for "As". E.g. setter methods often do m_Whatever = p_Whatever; - giving the two identifiers meaningfully different names would be awkward. But I've started to question if those cases are common enough to justify the consistent convention.
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| Apr 25, 2011 at 13:27 | history | answered | user23157 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |