Cx? Dzy? Those names were meaningless. A programmer doesn't rely on variable names to understand what the machine does, or very little. The contrary is a myth.

Cx? Dzy? Those names were meaningless. A programmer doesn't rely on variable names to understand what the machine does, or very little. The contrary is a myth. In other terms, you always check what a variable contains anyway. That being said, I make a distinction between obfuscated code and less code. The former is about presentation, which in my opinion you're free to decide while the later is about #node in the ast. Sort of.