• verstra@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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