[HN Gopher] A Made-Up Name Is Better Than No Name
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A Made-Up Name Is Better Than No Name
Author : marcusbuffett
Score : 8 points
Date : 2024-12-01 00:43 UTC (3 days ago)
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| mouse_ wrote:
| This works great if you're absolutely certain no other poor sap
| is going to have to work with your code. I do this myself for
| personal scripts!
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| Otherwise, please prioritize readability.
| brudgers wrote:
| Documentation is probably better than readability because
| readability makes a lot of assumptions arising from being close
| to the code...for example, Swedish names are not gonna be all
| that readable for most programmers (this holds true for English
| names as well).
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