I would be fine with separating it into two hints, although in any case it doesn't affect my coding as I'm not concerned with checkstyle.

Just personally, I'd much rather have code written so that this. is never used. The only time I see it in use, is prefixing a class field with this and being assigned in a setter method or constructor by a parameter named the same thing. In my case, I've always refactor-renamed the parameter to one or two letters and removed the "this." prefix. I don't think methods need the "this." prefix.