I'm in the opposite camp: more names means more identifiers to keep track of while reading in case they might be referenced more than once, even if it's just a

I'm in the opposite camp: more names means more identifiers to keep track of while reading in case they might be referenced more than once, even if it's just a short but nonetheless distracting check "ok, that's where the scope ends". There are certainly times when I take the name approach nonetheless, but more like a last resort, or when I expect full contact stepthrough with a debugger. If I deem it likely that I will get by with merely brackets and copious amounts of whitespace, that's what I'll do.