style_guide.md: Recommend using _prefix_variables within .gni files
Change-Id: Ia59f846e51015a7075c4c8731f41818c4cb843c3
Reviewed-on: https://gn-review.googlesource.com/2740
Reviewed-by: Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Brett Wilson <brettw@chromium.org>
diff --git a/docs/style_guide.md b/docs/style_guide.md
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@@ -284,3 +284,13 @@
`foo_use_bar` - prefixes can be used to indicate a limited scope for an argument
(e.g. `rtc_use_h264`, `v8_use_snapshot`)
+
+#### Variables
+
+Prefix top-level local variables within `.gni` files with an underscore. This
+prefix causes variables to be unavailable to importing scripts.
+
+```
+_this_var_will_not_be_exported = 1
+but_this_one_will = 2
+```
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