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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My advice: use descriptive variable names.

The article is really not about naming conventions.

[–] Sheldan@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Should have still used them. It was harder to read this way.

[–] potterman28wxcv@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed that some people can find it easier with explicit names - however some people find it easier with short meaningless names as it makes them focus on the abstraction rather than the naming. There is no right or wrong here. It all depends on the reader.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I even thought that this (hardness) was intended to emphasize the way it's hard to spot problems in real codebase 😅

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter, it's hard to read an article. If it were hard to read for another reason like bad grammar, I'd comment on that too 🤷