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edw519 on Oct 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What did the really successful programmers...

No, just variable naming.

As we speak, I'm maintaining some old code with the following variables names:

  - CommandRec
  - Command
  - Comm
  - Com

along with the fact that some of these are reused for different purposes and all are global.

I'm having a hell of a time finding all instances to rename them properly.

I understand that some programmer interfaces are better than others hanlding this, but that belies my main point:

"Just name shit what it really is."

henrik_w on Oct 8, 2012 | [–]

Awful names for sure. In Java and with Intellij IDEA for example, renmaing variables is a breeze, with a text editor much harder.

Evbn on Oct 9, 2012 | [–]

If only the programmer had the sense to name them in a style-compliant way

Cmnd

Cmd

Command

RecCommand

Command

(Couldn't resist that last one)

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