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I used to work with a guy who insisted his code was self explanatory, and then he'd nest loops 5 levels deep and give variables names like "thingyOne".
"thingyOne" is self explanatory, it's a thingy.
Namely, the first one. Next you're going to ask about thingySixtyNine or thingyOneHundredTwentyTwo, I suppose?
I don't know why you guys are so dense. How pedantic do thingiesNumX need to be?! It's perfectly obvious!
- Confucius
And turn signals are giving information to the enemy
Could be worse, it could've been customer_ID, Customer_id, customer_Id...
I wonder if there's a warning for that in Clang or GCC. That seems like something I'd want, but also want it to be 100% opt-in. Not even enabled with
-Wallor-Wextra.That guy wasn't in charge, I hope? That would not have passed code review with me at least.
I find that those people usually are the ones in charge.
He was.
Yup, he was in charge.
I worked with a guy who was smart but “useless smart”. He was convinced that “code is self descriptive”, that is comments are not needed because the code speaks for itself. Well that is like saying DNA is self descriptive. Yes, I can sit there tracing the code, tracking the variables, etc or you could make a small effort to describe what is happening instead and save me a lot of time and risk missing subtle points.