I agree with part of the article, because I didn’t read the rest. I truly dislike the use of single letter variable names: f, g, h and foo, bar, baz. My advice: use descriptive variable names.
function twoIfs, function complicatedIf, var simpleAnd, etc. Makes it so much easier to read examples instead of remembering “oh yeah, f had two ifs in it, h had the if/else, g calls f which calls h which,…”.
Also see this often in other examples: "A for ‘Truthy variable’ " 😓 Wtf. Laziness is good when it makes things easier, not harder.
Agreed that some people can find it easier with explicit names - however some people find it easier with short meaningless names as it makes them focus on the abstraction rather than the naming. There is no right or wrong here. It all depends on the reader.
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I agree with part of the article, because I didn’t read the rest. I truly dislike the use of single letter variable names:
f,g,handfoo,bar,baz. My advice: use descriptive variable names.function twoIfs,function complicatedIf,var simpleAnd, etc. Makes it so much easier to read examples instead of remembering “oh yeah,fhad two ifs in it,hhad the if/else,gcallsfwhich callshwhich,…”.Also see this often in other examples: "
Afor ‘Truthy variable’ " 😓 Wtf. Laziness is good when it makes things easier, not harder.The article is really not about naming conventions.
Should have still used them. It was harder to read this way.
Agreed that some people can find it easier with explicit names - however some people find it easier with short meaningless names as it makes them focus on the abstraction rather than the naming. There is no right or wrong here. It all depends on the reader.
I even thought that this (hardness) was intended to emphasize the way it’s hard to spot problems in real codebase 😅
The blog author is literally using de-facto standard for placeholder names.
The var names used by the author are perfectly fine. They don’t cause any issue, nor do they make things hard to read.
Doesn’t matter, it’s hard to read an article. If it were hard to read for another reason like bad grammar, I’d comment on that too 🤷