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Indeed. However, I personally do see that variable names/naming is really something where some people tend to over-engineer things. Say iterating over an array.
by zxcdw 14y ago
Indeed. However, I personally do see that variable names/naming is really something where some people tend to over-engineer things. Say iterating over an array. Why on earth would anyone bother with using "index" instead of "i"? What does it add, other than unnecessary bytes? Another example would be using "Input" and "Output" as argument names instead of simply "In" and "Out". Unnecessary bytes, repetition, noise for no stronger signal. No new information, just noise.
- ericHosick 14y agoTrue that. Now where is that quote (just for fun): "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton