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Depends on the context. If other vars are 'addess' and 'phoneNumber', 'name' looks pretty reasonable.

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• masklinn 10y ago
  Hardly. Is it a person's full name? legal name? first name? last name? nick name? desired call name? a company name? the name (alias) of the stored address?
  • gohrt 10y ago
    legal name in which country? name order varies between UK and China. What's a "call"? Whose company? what kind of address? Following this line of thinking, communication is impossible because everything is ambiguous.
    • masklinn 10y ago
      > Following this line of thinking, communication is impossible because everything is ambiguous. And making everything as ambiguous as possible makes communication easier… how?
  • TeMPOraL 10y ago
    If you're digging into that specific meaning of the word "name" (as a property of a person), you're likely doing something wrong: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
    • masklinn 10y ago
      > If you're digging into that specific meaning of the word "name", you're likely doing something wrong: If you're not you're definitely doing something wrong. > (as a property of a person) The original comment does not specify that it's "a property of a person". It could be a company, it could be a non-specific delivery address, etc...