> > > > > > How about "me" ? > > > > My initial reaction was that it's too much like self. But now that I've given > > it some more thought it probably is an excellent choice. > > > > 1) It's a pronoun > > 2) It's very short > > 3) It has some semantic value, i.e. as in (me)thod > > 4) It not really used for anything else (AFAIK) Not seriously floating this (unless everyone loves it) but the traditional way of referring to the present routine in code reviews (and even in comments) is "we" as in "we sort the array first, so that when we look through it we see the likely prospects..." -- MarkusQ