I agree higher level names are far more important. But I think clarity at the local level is nice, too. Let's say your function takes a name, sanitizes it, an

I agree higher level names are far more important. But I think clarity at the local level is nice, too. Let's say your function takes a name, sanitizes it, and then does some other processing, perhaps storing it. I think this makes the code more immediately clear than 2 character names: function storeName(name) { safeName = sanitize(name); // do other stuff that works with safeName //... }