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[–] verstra@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a convention to correlate the size of variable scope with its name length.

If a variable is used all over the program, it will be named "response". If it is <15 lines, then it can be "res". If it is less than 3 lines, it can be only "r".

This makes reading code a bit simpler, because it makes unimportant, local vars short and unnoticeable.

[–] hellishharlot@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why though? Intellisense helps you write out the full name. And instead of response why not call it whatever the data you're expecting to be

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I agree because it makes the code easier to follow in 6 months time.