Just saw a variable in C named like this:

long time_ago; //in a galaxy far away

I laughed no stop.

Programmers: Always use descriptive variable names.

Mathematicians: Single letter variable names always, ideally from obscure/dead alphabets.

Src: Twitter

Came across this gold:

Q) What is the best naming prefix for a global variable?

Ans) //

Some ideas for variable names. Thank me later :))

1. bool sheet;
2. int entionally;
3. char mander;
4. double penetration;
5. string cheese;
6. long schlong;

I've just realised that I have a variable called fistTime instead of firstTime all over my code.

When you accidently change (refactor) the variable name and you have no idea which var is which:

In devrant, I am but a variable that is being incremented and decremented.

Found this on fb

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

„You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first -born child!“

A variable walks into a bar. Constant bartender: "We don't serve your kind here!"
Variable: "What kind?"
Constant: "You know, sluts!"

Call me a variable

Code: if(customer.primaryContract)

Boss: "just using a variable as a boolean isn't very readable"

Me:
if(!(!customer.primaryContract != !true).toString() == 'false')

Or you can just use a variable

Naming a variable "dogFucker" in anger and accidentally committing it.

The hardest decision in any devs day is what to name the variable

Thinking of a name for a function or a variable is half the battle 😕💭

Copy code from StackOverflow and paste it. Then complaint on why is it giving a Variable Not Found.

Debating for naming a variable be like**~

Here I am, 'Junior' in my title and on my paycheck, training my 'Senior' colleague on the concept of variable types.

Constant: you're a slut!
Variable: I can change!

Variable naming conventions..

ReferenceError: variable "nose" is not defined. xD

*1 week into dream job*

Me: I need to communicate this variable to a script running in another thread, how do you normally handle that?

My Lead: oh, just add it as a global variable

Me: oh no...

Variable naming at its best...
Took only 2 hours to notice the difference between leftToRight and lefttoRight

I just ate in Undefined

Me everytime🙄

Meaningful variable names

"You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child." - James O. Coplien

Favorite development tool: Thesaurus.

Method/variable names are difficult dammit.

Coworker 1: Ugh, what name should I give this variable? Any idea?

Coworker 2: Doesn't matter that much. Just give it a name.

Coworker 1: ** Types in "albert" **

I wonder how the secret service comes up with all these cool names for secret operations they do when i am sitting here thinking what to name one variable for last 30mins. I should probably hire someone from there as a variable namer dev..

The hardest thing about coding is variable naming

Uhm... I suspect there is a null variable somewhere...

Are you Underscore or camelCase ?

Okay maybe that one shader variable was important after all...

Coders Life

I have a variable called 'stuff'. It's a test to see if my colleagues really read my pull requests.

Me:
*decompiles swf*
*thinks: "what is this shit?"*
*scrolls down*
*finds variable named "randomShit"*

* Literally writes one variable name

* Alt Tab to devRant

"Ahh whats new on devRant?"

Indian code. Check out the variable names. What a mess.

The pains of coming up with short but meaningful variable names 😣

Found somewhere.

Who prefers long descriptive variable names compared to variables that are acronyms?

For love i

Proud dev moment : as I was following the variable naming conventions from my company, I got to name a variable "l_o_tr" 💪

I should really stop using "swag" as a filler variable.

I was given a work to refactor one of my colleagues code and found that there was a variable named 'anal'. I was quite surprised seeing it as the colleague was a soft spoken and well behaved guy in office. After scratching my head for 15mins I came to know that he was storing analytics data in that variable. Hence the name! :-D

Me : *wants to refactor a variable*

Visual Studio : Ok! Type the new name of the variable

Me : *backspace one time to remove a char*

VS : *erases ALL the name of the variable and ALL the usages of the variable, and no possibility to undo*

Me : ..... that was a dick move you know.

That moment when you already used i, j and k for variable names in your loops.

What does a local variable say to a global variable in Javascript?

I met this girl and told her, she's the global variable to all my functions.. She gave me a dirty slap

why the fuck people name variables endig with numbers? why? how the hell do you even figure out what's what?

checkStatus1
checkStatus2
checkStatusMyAss

Worst part about being a dev is figuring out good variable names and function names.

Variable name 😂😂😂😂😴

I teach kids (7-12 years) to programming. Yesterday my colleague had the last class for this semester, where parents joined their kids to see what they done. They were presenting their projects, and a guy whose father is really strict with him, saw what variable names his son was using. Some of it (censored) are: "d*ck", "p*ssy", "f*ck". The guy is really scared of his father, because he's agressive with him all the time. I don't want to know what was his punishment for this.

Variable names DO matter.

Then there's that awkward moment when variable "count" doesn't work because I called it "cunt" later on.

Facebook devs be like,
Today I'm gonna change a variable name and release a new app version.

they made editing the Path variable easier in win 10.

but control panel is harder to get to

Found a "great" variable name while maintaining legacy code:

{
...
Report goodbye = Report::first($id);
goodbye->delete();
...
}

Goodbye report! 😂😂😂

What's the worst variable name you have ever made?

Use Meaningful variable names, they said.

Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).

Re-using the same variable for different things is *not* code re-use.

Have you ever been at that desperate point where you start naming your variable and functions into something like "pleaseWork"

working on legacy code and saw this:

@records = unpublished_collection.published

Wait, what?

I use variable names so bad that even i forget what they mean

Why did I mix English and Swedish variable names?

Wanted to abbreviate "cumulative" for a variable in my code, but it sounded sexual.

At my first big boy job at a start up with only 50 users, we noticed we had cloud cost spikes about 20x larger than we were expecting. I remember spending all night debugging it, checking the requests as they go through.

The culprit? Someone left an async on a UseEffect with a variable that was regularly updated as a parameter.

In other words: every time a request was fired, the variable would change… so the function would sense the variable changed and fire it again, and so on.

Felt like a total hero.

According to my predecessor, naming variables is easy. You just hang a poster of the alphabet on the wall and start throwing darts. The letter you skewer is your next variable.

If you run out of letters, start again - but dual wield the darts

Remember this !

Just why????
long d = date(toDate) - date(fromDate); // days

Please just name the variable days............

I'm bored af so I'm creating a language based on images.
In one day I instantiated my first variable :D
Basically, the first pixel defines the action type (in this case, red = initialize variable), the second one defines the variable color (aka name), and the rest defines the value using grey scale (0-255, every r/g/b is a character).
I know this is soooooooo useless but I just want to do something particular.
*Epic music* this is the birth of JPxl *stop epic music*!

"The variable has been removed during optimization and is not available".
Sometimes I really hate Visual Studio...

Facts:
That there is a thing called "Constant Variable"

When you can't access your variable because it's out of scope

I had defined a variable earlier, 'count', that I was trying to access later on in the code. Kept getting errors that the variable didn't exist.

When I looked, I had actually named it 'cunt'.

Best typo ever, gave me a good laugh as opposed to the usual annoying typos in programming.

Error: undefined variable "social"

Spent 5 minutes wondering why === wouldn't set my variable.

Rip.

I would rather drink bleach than setting an Environment variable in Windows

I just wasted my 2 hours debugging the code with a misspelled variable name, "separate" instead of "seperate".

Fcuk !

Why yes, it makes total sense for a variable called `$connectionString` to only accept either booleans or integers ... wat

Also beware the beauty on how well that names conveys the variable's intent.

FML

Did some code review the other day.
Best variable name found: pathToAss2

I can understand one variable . . . But all of them?

Those dang variables lol

if (variable == true)
return true;
else return false;

When you use yourself as a rubber duck and you realize how much of a dumbfuck you are...

Fuck me, I was using a variable called staticHTML in ejs template. But when passing the variable, I was using staticHtml.

Goddamn

What kind of variable conventions do you use?

timesincereseat
TimeSinceReseat
timeSinceReseat
TIMESINCERESEAT
TIME_SINCE_RESEAT
time_since_reseat
global{'tsr'} # so nobody can read it :)

People who write ridiculous JS variable names that are impossible to understand or are just unreadable!! WTF!! Don't tell me it's to save bytes because its getting minified anyway. You're just fucking lazy.

Hey girl are you a variable? Because you're stuck in my memory!

Give a review other than changing a variable name 😡

Who needs comments? The variable "tempList" is self-explaining

Syntax for my proposed "unsure" programming language.

Variable declaration:

let's just say that <variable name> = <value>

Function declaration:

hypothetically, we could <function name> (<args>){}

Try/ catch:

it's possible that
{

}
...or not (<ex>)
{

}

Start building first! You can think about variable names later 😜

Developers thinking name of a method or variable.

Today i found variable called "booleanValue". So it IS true, that there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things...

Figuring out where to put my devRant stickers is like picking variable names.

Except you can't refactor stickers...

I should probably rename this variable...

Every time I read/type it, my inner voice goes "for fucks sake"....

Me: so where do I change this variable?
Ex-developer: I have no idea
Me: okayyyyy... So where did you get this codebase?
Ex-developer: I created it
Me: and you don't know how to change this variable?
Ex-developer: honestly mate, I was pretty high at the time
Me: *hangs up phone*

commenting on every self-explanatory variable, what it is about

Just inherited a project from a "senior" with the variable names 'gggg' and 'ssss' in it...

When your dev's copy and paste code and don't bother changing the (completely irrelevant and misleading) variable names.

Stop using anal as variable name for analysis 😅

I just named a variable “rawDump” and I really don’t feel good about it

Descriptive variable names and method names > comments

Im C, the more asterisks your variable type has, the more you're doing something wrong.

please stop using anal as a variable
wherever I look I see anal that and anal this...

Superpower to instantly create variable names every time I need to declare a new variable based on the perfect matching with the code being written..

I'm always a little torn between writing

variable++;

Or

variable ++;

When u send ur code for review and instead of getting comments for logic u put in, u get 10+ comments regarding variable names , extra lines and formatting.
LMF

My loop checked a variable, then the next 5 nested loops checked it again, then started over. It was a hard coded variable I forgot about.

I just made my code OCD

If you know you're writing code that other people will have to work off of and you refuse to comment, can you at least have descriptive variable names so I don't have to spend an hour trying to figure out wtf something is. One letter does not make a variable name.

Why use cammelFormat or snake_case when you can use gOOd vAriaBLe nAmE

first world problem.

"what should we name that variable/class/method,etc"

ffs

One who says "What's in a name?"
.
.
had probably never named a "variable"

Never know why you need to add vanilla to make vanilla. Oh wait, it's just crappy variable naming.

Developers who think using cryptic variable names (like acronyms) is better than long descriptive variable names.....but then feel the need to document/comment the variable name rather than just naming the variable properly in be first place.

// Current CGRect to draw into
let ccgrd = self.currentCGRect()

Instead of just

let currentRectForDrawing = self.currentCGRect()

Always do your best to make your variable as immutable as you can!

When you can pull off using a variable variable.

When you see that a variable's name clearly defines its purpose

Why the fuck do these little shits use variable names like p,q,pq?
Wtf are you? Babbler Baboon !

Sometimes I spend way too much time on variable names xD

I really hate api response variable names like this. I mean why type "targetitemid" when "target_item_id" is so much more readable?

That moment when you take the time to explain the idea of camelCase variable naming as opposed to the Underscores to this hot new girl at the the office and she comes back to you showing off her handy work and you notice how her very first variable is named camelToe

Most difficult part of a programmer?
-> Naming variable

/** It takes me 2-5 mins to think

Whoops...
Guess who got their variable declaration wrong?

I should really use Postman

Swap variable without temporary variable
meanwhile C:
a=a+b
b=a-b
a=a-b

while python:
a,b=b,a

Python be like:B*tch Please

Came across a special variable name ::. dicParser

weirdest/longest/worst name you had to concieve for a class/function/variable

Challenge☕️💻🎊
_________________________
Changing value of two variables without using third variable.

Variable name
Descriptive VS Short

When you are done with classic variable names and decide to get creative. F#ed up names.

Our instructor for game development claims that variable names are not important if your scope is small.

Thoughts?

Here is a picture of his code he gave us as a reference the other day.

When you need to change a variable's value, but can't find the variable name since you're spelling it right.

When people say they are good at programming, but can't even initialize a variable! 😦🔫

I worked at a startup that indulged in pair programming thing. Where as a junior, you'd be partnered with a senior developer.

My mentor, always insisted on having shortest variable names possible, so that the "size of codebase" will be very small.

It was a nightmare going through his code and understanding what's he's done. Best part, no comments as well.

In a way it has primed me to go through any codebase possible.

When people don't comment their code and user arbitrary variable names 😡😤😡

I'm working with dictionaries today so naturally all my variable names are making me chuckle:
threshDic
saveDic
cutDic
Etc. you get the picture, it's the little things that get you through a Friday slog.

Let's get this environment variable, and set it again, but with a slightly different name

Only just noticed that CSS has variables - when the fuck did this happen and where the hell was I when it did!!!!

These are the programmers who I had encountered and detest intensely:

1. Programmers who addicted to take other programmers' failure as an achievement.

2. Programmers who are overly arrogant. (Hey just because you know something , that don't make you a God)

3. Programmers who stealing my code without crediting me, and yet he got paid.

4. Programmers who discourage new developers.

5. Programmers who can't take criticism (Once I told a dev that his code is not clean as he decided to name the variable like __fuckingFuckingFuckningVar = "Fuck"; , he yelled at me that i am a MF. Which it's completely childish in my opinion, as a software engineer, I think programme a clean code for easy maintain and understandable for others, it is a responsibility.)

6. Programmers who compare me with others.

7. Programmers who are not friendly. (Don't be like Stackoverflow).

Spelling and grammar errors in variable names, function names and comments.

for(int a = 0; a < b; a++){

//1k line of code using badly named variable
}

Whats your test/experimenting variable name?

Unlike foo,bar,baz..
Mine is banana/baba/apple 😂

I hate dumb variable names as much as I hate people who don't signal when they drive.

Never mind the fact that there's a validation-state variable inside his controller, separate rant.

I often mix languages in variable and function naming.

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_Files; // Recently used files

why not just use:

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_RecentlyUsedFiles;

FFS

Oops!! I just forgot to increment a loop variable in a while loop. ended up in an infinite loop :(

I just spent 2 hours trying to solve my bug. Turned out I named a variable "descrbtion"...

God I hate JavaScript.

Why on earth would some variable * somthing.other (where somthing is undefined) result in 653957364??????

I don't know what our teammates thought while writing this code.

When people use one character variable names in their code I'm just like:
How do you guys live like this... 😰

Names a variable Y, names another Q, yet another U. While still writing looks back at Q. What's Q supposed to mean? Closes laptop and walks away.

Unsure , if I should name my variable name as 'info' or 'infoFromDbAboutUser_RequiredForSessionValidation' for a method named 'functionToValidateUserAndCheckSessionIdOrAssignSessionIdIfNotAssigned'

Please help, I am unable to decide. :/

Variable assignment as declaration is stupid. Looking at you, Python 😑

You can never be sure whether you accidentally overwrite a previous value and you have to fuck around with global because it doesn't know what's an assignment to a global var and what's a declaration. It's just not as satisfying as doing it explicitly and only leads to errors

Wtaf?

why are there only two of seven characters of the Webservice password, when the request goes out in my docker container?

Answer:
The password was retrieved via PHP getenv()

Soooo....
If there is a $ in an environment variable, this $ has to be escaped with $$.

fml

Everyday another thingy to learn ^^

xD

What’s your preference for a simple if without shorthand:

if ($variable == ‘test’) echo ‘’hello’;

if ($variable == ‘test’) { echo ‘’hello’; }

if ($variable == ‘test’) {
echo ‘’hello’;
}

Programmer writer's block (or trying to name a variable):

I'm so used to camel casing variable names that when I wasn't concentrating properly just now I called a variable "outPut"

I am ashamed to admit that I only learned recently that omitting 'var' in a JS variable declaration inside a function gives the variable global scope. So that's why it wasn't working properly....

When an Oracle procedure from commercial software uses very meaningful variable names...not! SMH

Every nodejs programmer:

How do I check this variable is an array?
npm i isArray

When you see variable name like 'hehe' or 'zzz' a lot, you know the project was ducked up..

$mess

My new favorite variable name 😎

What's worse than naming a variable? Naming an application with a .com available.

Writing a variable/class name in two languages (Spanish/English for instance) at the same time.

Wish the variable naming algorithm in my mind would run in less than O(n⁷⁹) time

While writing a big program i always get worried about naming variables.

My boss develops with access 2000 and uses variable width arial font. 🤢

When you turn a variable around!

Saw a counting variable in code. It was a necessary counting variable, so that is not what this is about.

However, this is a US based company that has a somewhat PC (no cursing) and professional cultural facade.

This variable was called "cnt". How the hell did that one not get caught in peer review? I have gotten dinged for having "possibly offensive" variable names (think Point5Hit though I have never written that as a variable name). It was funny. But I have changed it because that's just lazy.

How do you call this php error, data not assigned to variable?

Is it just me or is the first question of the gcse computer science exam the hardest question in the world?

"Tahnik, it's about your code that I'm reviewing. There's bool variable called homeMainCreatePostChoseImageFromLibrary. Any idea what that variable is doing?"

"That's the button the user can click to chose an image from library when creating a post"

"Oh ok. Can you put a comment on that variable?"

"..."

Can you help my friend in converting the html variable ?

Just use the variable on the line after the promise, it will be populated then…

From a “tech lead”

Prefer if(typeof variable != "undefined") over if(variable)

RANT: So in school, we have to program using some kind of pseudocode.
Today we wrote an algorithm from a previous exam. Apparently, they don't give you a mark if you get the Array.length(). To receive the mark you have to have to use a variable.
WHICH MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO ME.
My teacher said it would even be ok to define a variable like Variable = Array.length. THAT MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE

People that argue that anyone who doesn't understand their one or two letters long variable names are idiots.

value is some boolean variable

if( !(value != false) == true) {
return !value;
}

Times when selecting variable name is more difficult then logic

Out of variable names

Does anyone use emojis for variable names?

When you spent two hours of debugging because that one variable somehow has the value of NULL which can't be because it is initialized with another value and you realized you mistyped the name on one of your procedures, so VBA automatically instantiates a new variable and initializes it

Thinking how the fuck did the variable became undefined and realizing you defined the variable in an asynchronous rest call...

Does anyone else include greek letters in their JavaScript variable names just to fuck with co-workers?

Why do programmers always start with variable I,j,k for loops and not a,b, c ...?

when all you want to do is work on your bash script but your wrist pain keeps distracting you...

My code works.
Well, it should, but not like this.
I've set some datas to a nested form,  saved by a variable named 'stat1', however the code won't work unless I use a variable named 'fields'. Not 'stat1'. I'm only 24 years old and I already feel too old for this shit.

I was new to C++. Spent a few days debugging a crash caused by an uninitialised variable.

Why some single letter variable names looks ugly to me, for example: c, i and j (and even k) are the most used (mostly in for loops) but does not look ugly.. why?

Ugly
for (int a = 0; a < 10; ++a)

Not ugly
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)

When my teacher says that you have to produce variable lists for each variable in your program, stating the name, type and what they're used for, if you're coding in Java, you know you're fucked with 16 classes of swing GUI...

short variables names, long variable names, nonsense variable names

Take the name of the last variable you used and add "in my pants"

Don't use keywords as variable names, you're going to have a bad time.

Powershell is fucking great. Expand my shitty variable before I call the applet. Fucking call the applet and you shit yourself stupid and think the variable is now empty. Take my variable and shove it up your daft gigantic ass powershell. Fuck you.