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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
Long descriptive variable names or short concise names?
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@gt
Go style spec has this right imo: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/decisions#variable-names
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@sam
short scope, shorter names. longer scope, longer names
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
Your naming system for variables should be according to this best practice: Go through the alphabet, so let a, const b, etc. until you get to the end, then continue with adding a number, so a1, b1, etc until infinity This way you never run out
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@maxp.eth
Lot of good answers, but my monkey brain won’t allow me to go longer than: - noun - nounNoun - verbNounNoun
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@gabrielayuso.eth
Depends on the language's best practices, how the variable is defined and its scope. Example: _START_DATE_YYYYMMDD = "20231020" d := GetFormatedDate("YYYYMMDD") bool IsUserBirthdate(std::string date) {} func set_birthdate(str_date) {}
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@ds8
depends on the scope (and context). i prefer short concise variants - imo if you have to go long and descriptive, there *might* be something wrong with the overall design.
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@joeblau
Yes
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@alexgrover.eth
I worked with a guy a while back who was… very particular, and we got into this debate and he went and found some studies to back up his argument that shorter names are actually better I don’t have it offhand, I personally use longer names most of the time, but there is science out there if you go search lol
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@adrienne
Shortest name that someone else (yourself in 5 years included) will know the meaning
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@jazzlisp.eth
I randomly generate short string as var names and provide with a description dictionary.
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@branksypop
long bcs I don't have time to write them short
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@gokhan.eth
short concise.
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