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>Let's give em names!

The key piece of advice. It helps tremendously with backtraces if your program crashes.



Also, generally good advice for everything and something to keep in mind when designing systems.

Excel has one of the worst cultures when it comes to naming things. Easy to blame the users, but tools end up being used the way their design encourages. Excel gives you meaningless names. So most things have meaningless names.


Do your stacktraces not have line numbers? I see this advice repeated so often and it always surprises me.




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