'this' instance field reference

"A. Kevin Baynes" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.trijug.juglist
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In an unformal code review, I have a colleague who wrote :

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'Access to instance fields should be prefixed with "this."'

and

'Note I'm talking about variables here, not methods. I agree that
"this." is unconventional on method calls, but I think there is fairly
universal agreement these days about use of "this." on *variables*.'
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I know that 'this' is needed to resolve class level varaibles obscured
within a method by a local variable of the same name, and is needed to
call sibling constructors.

I don't see any problem in referencing class variables as 'this.foo'
if you wish, it reads the same to me.

My question is 'this' :

Do any of you support this purported 'univeral agreement' theory?

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A. Kevin Baynes

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