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Exp. that made you doubt your skills?
Week 88 Group Rant
mpower
6y

The day I named a variable "new" and stuck there for hours trying to find what's wrong.

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  • 3
    6y
    Hahaha, nice.
  • 11
    6y
    I bet this also happened to the inventor of syntax highlighting.
  • 5
    6y
    New, old, class, parent..

    I know people that deliberately name keys in their json like that...

    *note: they're teachers & do it to assert who's paying attention in class :)
  • 1
    6y
    @lotd my teachers would do that too. Caught me napping a couple of times because of it. Haha
  • 0
    6y
    @lotd Although what often gets me is type. It would be so damn useful as variable name.
  • 0
    6y
    Use an IDE.
  • 3
    6y
    @yuz1 Every decent text editor has language-specific syntax highlighting as well. But sometimes this can happen regardless.
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