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Calling tau 2pi is the most cursed thing I've seen all day. Appropriate for Halloween.

• smrq 1y ago
  If you call a variable tau in production code then you're being overly cute. I know what it means, because I watch math YouTube for fun, but $future_maintainer in all likelihood won't.
  • lock1 1y ago
    Where do you draw the line then? Stopping at `tau` just because `$future_maintainer` might get confused feels like an arbitrary limit to me. What about something like `gamma`? Lorentz factor? Luminance multiplier? Factorial generalization? Why not just use the full sentence rather than assign it to an arbitrary name/symbol `gamma` and leave it dependent on the context? And it's not that hard to add an inline comment to dispel the confusion const tau = 2*pi; // Alternate name for 2pi is "tau"