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Naming: A Word To The Wise 12

Posted by tottinger Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:50:00 GMT

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.

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    Will 26 minutes later:

    Do you have any examples?

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    Tim 36 minutes later:

    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’t want to include those accidentally in our code. Even some non-epithetical phrases can be unfortunate in context of certain calls like “kill” or “spawn” or “fork” or the like.

    Language creates difficulties.

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    Criminal Records over 3 years later:

    It was not randomly jumbled, it no longer contained dead code or variables whose function had changed but whose name had not or swaths of duplicated code where only the constants.

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