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The following article has influenced my naming choices ever since I first read it: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/ http

• whatshisface 6y ago
  It's interesting how programmers tend to reinvent the idea of type systems after enough experience. The us_ prefix is a manually checked Us(String) type. Fortunately in modern languages we can express that at the function signature level and we don't need to spend "three weeks" training our eyes!
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  Relying on naming discipline as opposed to the more reliable features available in a language with any of (1) static typing, or (2) class-based OOP, or (3) prototypical OOP, seems...unnecessarily error-prone.