IntelliJ automatically adding "this" in front of member variables

Alexander;

From the Java documentation:

Within an instance method or a constructor, this is a reference to the current object — the object whose method or constructor is being called. You can refer to any member of the current object from within an instance method or a constructor by using this.

Often times the this is bypassed by generating member variables with a prefix of m. Here are a couple of code samples to demonstrate the point.

public class Point {
    public int x = 0;
    public int y = 0;

    //constructor
    public Point(int a, int b) {
        x = a;
        y = b;
    }
}

We could also do:

public class Point {
    public int x = 0;
    public int y = 0;

    //constructor
    public Point(int x, int y) {
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
    }
}

With the m prefix to designate member variables you would have:

public class Point {
    public int mX = 0;
    public int mY = 0;

    //constructor
    public Point(int x, int y) {
        mX = x;
        mY = y;
    }
}

Those are all functionally the same. Post back with further questions and I'll dig through IntelliJ to show where you can alter it to generate the prefix.

Happy coding,
Ken