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Disclaimer: This comment is mostly in jest. For a second there I thought i was reading about golang[1]. * Single letter var names[2] / [3] * Underscores [4]

Disclaimer: This comment is mostly in jest. For a second there I thought i was reading about golang[1]. * Single letter var names[2] / [3] * Underscores [4] / [5] * extended ascii code [6] / [7] [1]https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html [2] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#single-letter-variable-names https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#single-lette... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variable-names https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl... [4] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#underscore-a-friend-indeed https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#underscore-a... [5] https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#blank https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#blank [6] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#extended-ascii https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code#extended-asc... [7] https://golang.org/ref/spec#Source_code_representation https://golang.org/ref/spec#Source_code_representation

marcosdumay 8y ago
> Single letter var names They are also a Haskellers favorite. There's a non-sarcastic paper running on the internet named something like "descriptive variable names considered harmful". Most of the community agrees with it, including me.
- Hirak 8y ago
  > Single letter var names There are tons of those in Android framework code as well
- therealdrag0 8y ago
  Why are they harmful?
ppeetteerr 8y ago
Oh man, any time I read example Go code it always reminds me of code from the 80s/90s. Probably written by the same crowd too.