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I have a coworker that names variables after Marvel and Disney characters.
by dillonmckay 7y ago
I have a coworker that names variables after Marvel and Disney characters.
- mrslave 7y agoDo we have an analog to Occam's razor for can't/won't? It sounds like your colleague has an obscure sense of humor or has simply checked out.
- z3t4 7y agoAfter being tasked to do the same repetitive job over and over I became very bored, and to make it fun I changed the variable name in one of the repos. The funny name stayed there as some sort of artifact and probably still haunts the poor people tasked to maintain it. And it has become a war story about that time when one of my colleges was tasked to make a routine change, but for the life could not figure out was was wrong, only to find out that repo had a different variable name... So your college probably need some more challenge. Put him on binary (assembly) optimization or something, where he doesn't have to come up with variable names. That said, naming things is probably one of the most difficult tasks in programming.
- abiogenesis 7y agoI'm not proud of this but I once temporarily named an exception class after a cartoon character and it kept popping up in server logs for years.