Question

Is it a simple case of just never using the this.XYZ construct?

Answer 1

It’s only considered poor style if it violates your style guidelines. Sometimes using this is necessary to qualify a member variable over a local variable:

public MyType(int arg) {     this.arg = arg; } 

This problem can also be mitigated with style guidelines. For example, prefix members with ‘_’:

public MyType(int arg) {     _arg = arg; }