this is no longer a guideline afaik

diff --git a/docs/design.txt b/docs/design.txt
index 192e8c6..f95ef0f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/design.txt
+++ b/docs/design.txt
@@ -89,10 +89,6 @@ Naming/coding conventions:
     things will break. New code should use the standard method of setting
     visibilities as normal.
 
-  - Member variables are generally "mXxx" to distinguish them. This should make
-    it easier to spot errors of forgetting the required "$this->", which PHP
-    will happily accept by creating a new local variable rather than complaining.
-
   - Globals are particularly evil in PHP; it sets a lot of them automatically
     from cookies, query strings, and such, leading to namespace conflicts; when
     a variable name is used in a function, it is silently declared as a new