When I learned Objective-C I remember being flabbergasted at all the method and argument names that were exceedingly wordy. At some point I read a blog post[0]

When I learned Objective-C I remember being flabbergasted at all the method and argument names that were exceedingly wordy. At some point I read a blog post[0] that said while this is out of the ordinary when it comes to most code having long, descriptive names helps when reading code. Some people complain that it involves too much typing or takes up too much space. In reality, we spend much more time reading code than we do writing it, so names that provide context, direction, and fore-shadowing are really useful. I still tend to write method names and important variable names like that to this day in pretty much any language I use. IMHO, its a great hack. An extreme example is in the NSBitmapImageRep class [1] [0]: https://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/06/method-names-in-objective-c.html https://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/06/method-names-in-object... [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsbitmapimagerep/1395538-init https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsbitmapima...