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It's kind of my goto when I just need a variable to inspect. Mind you, I never commit this. -
bezorp3746y@theMaintainer I can see it, but I'm also prejudiced against the "my" prefix because of its association with super basic student tutorials.
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We had a Chinese programmer once who called his variables ping, pong and pingpong.
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bezorp3746y@rutee07 that's awful, though incidentally a good argument for a clear programming font.
Iil1O0!,.:; etc should all be clearly, painfully distinct without even a second glance. -
rant1ng45676yIn JavaScript
To extend scope
Someone suggested using _this instead of self
So I tried it
I both liked It and felt dirty at the same time
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