Just saw a variable in C named like this:

long time_ago; //in a galaxy far away

I laughed no stop.

Uncle Bob said to always be verbose with your naming 👍

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) //

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a peaceful programmer.

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.

Found this on fb

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

In all honesty, if there was a course on giving variables good, informative and not completely stupid names... I would take it.

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

Microsoft
(　^ω^)

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**~

C++ >>>>>

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

ReferenceError: variable "nose" is not defined. xD

Variable naming conventions..

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

*Before learning to code*
Me: It's going to be easy. 😎
*After learning to code*
Me: Ahh,What should I name this variable.😟😟

I just ate in Undefined

Interviewer:"what's the challenges you often face in programming?"
Me:"naming variable, class and git commit message always trouble me as I'm a perfectionist."

Meaningful variable names

I can't be the only one who has at least once used a single = for a comparison and spent ages wondering what went wrong 😑

Shakespeare : What's in a name?
Dev : reference to memory location.

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;

This happened just a few meters of me.

IT Guy: What happened sir?
IT Manager: WTF does the variable a4g646g54a6g54a65g654ag546a654g56a?

~awkward silence~

Still curious.

"How to name your variables and functions so they can be understood by other humans" should be a mandatory lesson right after someone writes their first ever computer program.

Me everytime🙄

It's so hard to pick a good variable/class name, how the hell will I be able to pick a good name for my future kid?

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

'coz you know ...

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" **

Who else does this?😂

The hardest thing about coding is variable naming

Naming contest:

These two 'new' servers need hostnames.
Names must be within the following constraints:

* Names must be female
* Names must be pronouncable and writable in ASCII standard set of characters.
* Names are preferred to reference to duo's, like sisters, twins, dynamic duo's like chip and dale, but female.

Previous servers were name 'tairu' & 'mairu' (heroic age) and 'karen' & 'tsukihi' (nisemonogatori)

Let's see if the devrant community can surprise me.

Entries will be closed within 48 hours of this post.

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

Coders Life

Are you Underscore or camelCase ?

The best job denial letter I've ever seen was sent to my husband and said:
- We already have too many people named Eugen in our company.

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

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

* Literally writes one variable name

* Alt Tab to devRant

"Ahh whats new on devRant?"

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

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

When a junior dev with 1 year exp. of a programming language asked me how to define value of a variable, there must be something wrong ...

Found somewhere.

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.

When you spend 15 minutes writing the code, and 4 hours coming up with the perfect name for the class/method/variable

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Variable name 😂😂😂😂😴

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

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

Goodbye report! 😂😂😂

they made editing the Path variable easier in win 10.

but control panel is harder to get to

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

Variable names DO matter.

If I could go back in time and slap myself for these variable names and this "code" alltogether, I would bring a pan with me!!!

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

Use Meaningful variable names, they said.

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

Use profanity labelled variables... like the $penis I just used in my code... (makes coding fun, until u get "undefined variable: cannot find $penis on line 31")

Bad variable naming

Dim [Dim] As Short

Why you ask? For the glory of satan of course!

For me the hardest thing in coding is not the code or to write good code its fucking hard to name every variable and function.

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?

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

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

Return goals;

Error: variable goals is uninitialized.

Well... That's it 🤷

Why did I mix English and Swedish variable names?

Remember this !

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

Error: undefined variable "social"

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

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

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.

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

finally fix the f*cking bug (variable was not updating every time I clicked an button) 😃😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😄

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

Came across 'var3' and 'var15' while debugging Hybris. What the actual fuck SAP, since when do you hire preschoolers to code.

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

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

Those dang variables lol

As à french developer, today I learned we can use accent in variable name.
Like let étude = undefined.

Why would use accent in variable name ? Huh ?

I wonder if I have to fire the guy who made me discover this.

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

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

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.

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

When you open a non-minified file with tons of difficult calculations only to see, that every variable is around 1 or 2 letters. :'(

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

Except you can't refactor stickers...

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes in my code, I'll set a variable to "Jesus" so that when testing, I get to tell myself "Time to find Jesus"

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 a junior dev and my seniors insist to use Hungarian Notation. Looking the code I found a variable called oAllProjects... This is a fucking array.

I'm always a little torn between writing

variable++;

Or

variable ++;

first world problem.

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

ffs

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

New PM thinks it's a great idea to start micromanaging my team's (private) repo names. Can't wait to hear his opinions on our class and variable names! 😭

Stop using anal as variable name for analysis 😅

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

Descriptive variable names and method names > comments

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

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

Why do some variable names start with an _ in C/C++ ? I personally do not like such naming.

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

Sometimes I spend way too much time on variable names xD

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

I should really use Postman

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

When you can pull off using a variable variable.

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

Most difficult part of a programmer?
-> Naming variable

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

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()

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

Just another day of trying to figure out The purpose of a public method with zero documentation and cryptic variable names🙇🏼🙇🏼🙇🏼

Came across a special variable name ::. dicParser

what is the else there for, it reminds me of all the times I saw shit like

if(variable == true){
}else{
doSomething();
}

There's a special place in hell for people that declares variable like this

let someawesomevariablename = null;

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I named an alias variable feedItem in my database query but I keep accidentally typing feetItem. I have no one to blame but myself.

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

Variable name
Descriptive VS Short

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.

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

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

I know a guy who uses Unicode characters to write variable and function names. I won't be surprised if I find some Emoji function declaration there

When variable naming should be policed... $is_not_checkout. WTF!! Even worse when seen in context.

If (!$is_not_checkout) {
// do something when on the checkout

}

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. :/

I never understood why some developers _ before their Javascript variable or functions. Do they serve any purposes? Other they just make everything look bizarre

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

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

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

Hello from firefox nightly running on pure wayland by default.
Just set env variable and wohoooooooooo. now this feels nice.

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.

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

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

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

I often mix languages in variable and function naming.

Whats your test/experimenting variable name?

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

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’;
}

Every nodejs programmer:

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

return ((variable == 1) ? true : false)

When you turn a variable around!

This Safari Bug is sooo bad, really hard to find it. (It initializes new variables with the element where id and variable name is the same, why?)

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

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

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

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....

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

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.

Can you help my friend in converting the html variable ?

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

Creating a $__this variable in global scope in a shitty PHP application. Worst part was, he wrote it in my mother language ($__bu). Fuck that.

Anybody else really dislike jQuery coding standards? Like who decided $ was a nice & informative variable name?

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

I needed to update this function to add some more functionality​. And this is what i did.( I did added more functionality though)
Will I be fired?

*writes programs with variables for arguments*

Runs.. Crashes

*removes variables places exact same code in parameter list*

Runs.. Succeeds.

I don't understand you my GPU

"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?"

"..."

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

$mess

My new favorite variable name 😎

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

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

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

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

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

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

You enter in the University class of programming and the teacher talk about what is a Variable and how to use It :I
So Interesting for me.....

Why commenting is important?

If you are commenting a variable or method and you can't find the right way of explaining it, there's a problem with your code

The hardest decision right after "how to name this variable?":

Where to put free lines?

(Should there be one after the colon!?)

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

Times when selecting variable name is more difficult then logic

When you just click ok while renaming a variable in android studio and realise, that it changed some words of your AndroidManifest.xml