TL;DR: Don't prefix your attributes with your class name

Problems

• Not Contextual Names

Solutions

1. Remove the class prefix from the attribute

Context

This is a naming smell, we should not read attributes in isolation and names are contextual.

Sample Code

Wrong

public class Employee {
   String empName = "John";
   int empId = 5;
   int empAge = 32;
}

Right

public class Employee {
   String name;
   int id; // Ids are another smell
   int age; // Storing the age is yet another smell
}

Detection

[X] Semi-Automatic

When the full name is included in the prefix, our linters can warn us.

Tags

• Naming

Conclusion

Careful naming is a very important task.

We need to name after the behavior, not type or data

Relations

More Info

• Linux Hint

Disclaimer

Code Smells are just my opinion.

Credits

Photo by Phoenix Han on Unsplash

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Jason Fried

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This article is part of the CodeSmell Series.