Setting Eclipse Preferences for Java SE (Elon Phoenix Video)

[spychic101]

they look like really good pref and I did change mine to them but I don't understand why prefix with the letter a?

[ElonCsProf]

@spychic101 Some try to avoid parameter shadowing. In other words if you have a class instance variable

 int bank in a setBank method should you have

public void setBank(int bank) { this.bank = bank;

}

or would it be better to have

public void setBank(int aBank) { bank = aBank;

}

One school of thought is the later is better for maintenance as you would not make the mistake of

public void setBank(int bank) { bank = bank;

}