[cmake-developers] Questions about coding conventions

[Daniel Pfeifer]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Tobias Hunger <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io> wrote:
> On Fr, 2016-06-10 at 16:34 +0200, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
>> 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).
>
> So you optimize for teletype terminals and punish everybody that has invested in
> new stuff like screens with *color* in the last couple of decades:-/
>
> /me is trapped in 1995!

In 2016, semantic highlighting is the exception rather than the norm.
I expect that to remain that way for some years to come.
Git diff output, compiler diagnostics, github, the woboc code browser
are all very colorful. Yet, members are not highlighted anywhere.