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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My advice: use descriptive variable names.

The article is really not about naming conventions.

[–] Sheldan@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Should have still used them. It was harder to read this way.

[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Should have still used them. It was harder to read this way.

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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I even thought that this (hardness) was intended to emphasize the way it's hard to spot problems in real codebase 😅

[–] potterman28wxcv 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

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 🤷