http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/11/27/naming-a-word-to-the-wise en-us 40 <p>Please pronounce your variable names as words, even if they are merely abbreviations. The phonemes indicated by your spelling may correspond to an existing word with an entrenched meaning. It may be one that you do not intend to communicate.</p> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:50:00 +0000 urn:uuid:b90134fd-a901-4af6-91b0-6c4e65e4b5b6 Tim Ottinger http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/11/27/naming-a-word-to-the-wise Tim's Tepid Torrent naming clever clear code style <p>I do, however the nature of this problem is that the particular spellings tend to be either obscenities, profanities, or racial/national slurs. The whole point of the post is that we don&#8217;t want to include those accidentally in our code. Even some non-epithetical phrases can be unfortunate in context of certain calls like &#8220;kill&#8221; or &#8220;spawn&#8221; or &#8220;fork&#8221; or the like.</p> <p>Language creates difficulties.</p> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:26:11 +0000 urn:uuid:045f02ce-c1c0-4e6b-8592-f3f71de856cb http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/11/27/naming-a-word-to-the-wise#comment-1058 <p>Do you have any examples?</p> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:16:02 +0000 urn:uuid:104362ce-dda5-42ae-9a09-d4f1273afe38 http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/11/27/naming-a-word-to-the-wise#comment-1057