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On 10/2/2012 12:51 PM, bob smith wrote:
> Is this sort of thing bad practice (using parameter names that are the same as my field names in the constructor)?
>
>
>
> public My_Rectangle(double x, double y, double width, double height) {
> 		this.x=x;
> 		this.y=y;
> 		this.width=width;
> 		this.height=height;
>
> }
>

Often, there is one right name for a property, like "width" for the
width of a rectangle. That is both the best possible identifier for a
private field representing the property, and the best possible
identifier for a constructor argument setting its value.

Why give one of them a different, necessarily inferior, identifier?

Patricia