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I used to name my variables after my friends, classmates, and food in middle school in the 90s. It was all fun until I was trying to remember what the purpose
by jdlyga 5y ago
I used to name my variables after my friends, classmates, and food in middle school in the 90s. It was all fun until I was trying to remember what the purpose of hotDog was.
- jpgvm 5y agoCould have been worse, it could have been returning hotDog or notHotDog.
- edmcnulty101 5y agoI need more food data types in my code.
- johnyzee 5y agoI see you Jian Yang.
- raisedbyninjas 5y agoI once worked with a senior dev that stored his notes, snippets, test projects, etc. anything that wasn't committed to the repository in a local file structure. This was years ago before the flood of note apps and cloud storage. The naming convention was just incrementing numbers. There were hundreds of them that he had memorized.
- Adverblessly 5y agoDo you mean something like https://johnnydecimal.com/ https://johnnydecimal.com/ ?
- rkuykendall-com 5y agoAs VERY cool as this is (thanks), I think the parent was referring to something like: 297.txt 298.txt 299.txt 300.txt 301.txt