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There may not be anything wrong with it in isolation, but cognitive load is increased when every identifier is effectively a sentence or paragraph.
by osigurdson 4y ago
There may not be anything wrong with it in isolation, but cognitive load is increased when every identifier is effectively a sentence or paragraph.
- rerdavies 4y agoBut cognitive load also increases when you have no idea what the significance of a variable is.
- osigurdson 4y agoAgree, but it is an optimization problem: maximize meaning while minimizing identifier length. Recognize that it is possible to have identifiers that are too long.