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When you advise against naming a variable a subset of another variable, are you talking about confusing names, or practices like breaking off a chunk of array to process instead of finding a smarter way to step through it like mapping or in-place logic?


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."


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


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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