There is no reason to re-assign a variable to itself. Either this statement is redundant and should be removed, or the re-assignment is a mistake and some other value or variable was intended for the assignment instead.

## Noncompliant Code Example

    function setName(name) {
        name = name;
    }

## Compliant Solution

    function setName(name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

## See

- CERT, MSC12-C. - Detect and remove code that has no effect or is never executed