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Just saw a variable in C named like this:
long time_ago; //in a galaxy far away
I laughed no stop.11 -
Programmers: Always use descriptive variable names.
Mathematicians: Single letter variable names always, ideally from obscure/dead alphabets.
Src: Twitter17 -
A variable walks into a bar. Constant bartender: "We don't serve your kind here!"
Variable: "What kind?"
Constant: "You know, sluts!"7 -
Code: if(customer.primaryContract)
Boss: "just using a variable as a boolean isn't very readable"
Me:
if(!(!customer.primaryContract != !true).toString() == 'false')13 -
In all honesty, if there was a course on giving variables good, informative and not completely stupid names... I would take it.
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Copy code from StackOverflow and paste it. Then complaint on why is it giving a Variable Not Found.1
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Here I am, 'Junior' in my title and on my paycheck, training my 'Senior' colleague on the concept of variable types.7
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Variable naming at its best...
Took only 2 hours to notice the difference between leftToRight and lefttoRight
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*Before learning to code*
Me: It's going to be easy. 😎
*After learning to code*
Me: Ahh,What should I name this variable.😟😟7 -
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."8 -
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 😑9
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This happened just a few meters of me.
IT Guy: What happened sir?
IT Manager: WTF does the variable a4g646g54a6g54a65g654ag546a654g56a?
~awkward silence~
Still curious.2 -
"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.17
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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?7
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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" **7 -
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.
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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.3 -
I have a variable called 'stuff'. It's a test to see if my colleagues really read my pull requests.3
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Proud dev moment : as I was following the variable naming conventions from my company, I got to name a variable "l_o_tr" 💪9
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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 ...5
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When you spend 15 minutes writing the code, and 4 hours coming up with the perfect name for the class/method/variable5
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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! :-D9
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I met this girl and told her, she's the global variable to all my functions.. She gave me a dirty slap5
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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.10 -
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.5
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why the fuck people name variables endig with numbers? why? how the hell do you even figure out what's what?
checkStatus1
checkStatus2
checkStatusMyAss10 -
Found a "great" variable name while maintaining legacy code:
{
...
Report goodbye = Report::first($id);
goodbye->delete();
...
}
Goodbye report! 😂😂😂 -
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!!!
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Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).6
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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")1
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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.7
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Have you ever been at that desperate point where you start naming your variable and functions into something like "pleaseWork"4
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"The variable has been removed during optimization and is not available".
Sometimes I really hate Visual Studio...
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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.
Goddamn7 -
Came across 'var3' and 'var15' while debugging Hybris. What the actual fuck SAP, since when do you hire preschoolers to code.2
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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 :)13 -
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.9 -
ever noticed that a years day can be stored in an 8byte variable?
the creatorz of the universe anticipated computers!
WE LIVE IN A MATRIX!4 -
Figuring out where to put my devRant stickers is like picking variable names.
Except you can't refactor stickers... -
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.
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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*2 -
When you open a non-minified file with tons of difficult calculations only to see, that every variable is around 1 or 2 letters. :'(2
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Sometimes in my code, I'll set a variable to "Jesus" so that when testing, I get to tell myself "Time to find Jesus"
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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..
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Never know why you need to add vanilla to make vanilla. Oh wait, it's just crappy variable naming.
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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! 😭3
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Just another day of trying to figure out The purpose of a public method with zero documentation and cryptic variable names🙇🏼🙇🏼🙇🏼6
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Challenge☕️💻🎊
_________________________
Changing value of two variables without using third variable.16 -
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 -
There's a special place in hell for people that declares variable like this
let someawesomevariablename = null;4 -
what is the else there for, it reminds me of all the times I saw shit like
if(variable == true){
}else{
doSomething();
}
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I really hate api response variable names like this. I mean why type "targetitemid" when "target_item_id" is so much more readable?
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Those lost 30min looking for a mistake in the algorithm ,only to realize you've been using the wrong type for one variable... I hate myself right now..
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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.5 -
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.
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When you need to change a variable's value, but can't find the variable name since you're spelling it right.
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I named an alias variable feedItem in my database query but I keep accidentally typing feetItem. I have no one to blame but myself.1
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I never understood why some developers _ before their Javascript variable or functions. Do they serve any purposes? Other they just make everything look bizarre12
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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 there3
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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.
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When people use one character variable names in their code I'm just like:
How do you guys live like this... 😰2 -
This is the real times. This is not that it's happening right now, this is pretty regular. Lesson? Rethink before you decide the variable type
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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.
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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. :/10 -
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 ^^
xD1 -
Anybody else really dislike jQuery coding standards? Like who decided $ was a nice & informative variable name?3
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Is it just me or is the first question of the gcse computer science exam the hardest question in the world?
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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?)
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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.9
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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.9 -
Obviously, I overdid it with the assembly study assignment this morning - just tried to bit-mask a variable using "andi". In C#.2
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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....6
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*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 -
People that argue that anyone who doesn't understand their one or two letters long variable names are idiots.2
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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 SENSE7 -
"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?"
"..."4 -
Hello from firefox nightly running on pure wayland by default.
Just set env variable and wohoooooooooo. now this feels nice.5 -
Turns out that one can use the ‘var’ keyword to declare a variable in Java 10. Finally Java’s being more like JavaScript 😊6
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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?
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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 code3 -
Does anyone else include greek letters in their JavaScript variable names just to fuck with co-workers?1
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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.....4 -
The hardest decision right after "how to name this variable?":
Where to put free lines?
(Should there be one after the colon!?)7 -
When you just click ok while renaming a variable in android studio and realise, that it changed some words of your AndroidManifest.xml1
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my coworker made a scss-variable for $white. in case white should anywhere soon get a new hex-value3
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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...1
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So as a student developer with years of background in web development (including both front and backend), c++, java and c#, I was more than surprised when I found out my Informatics assignment hadnt received the proper excellent mark. In fact both me and a friend of mine who has been working with C++ in particular for years got a --mark.
// The assignment was the most simple Windows Forms Application with 2 buttons and a textbox
When we asked about that the teacher said we hadn't labeled the buttons and textboxes, though we had actually taken our time to put labels next to each UI element that would need usage directions.
Though what she meant was renaming the actual variable names, those being textBox1, button1 and button2.
We of course got really mad, because w both follow the accepted naming conventions for each of the languages we write in. Arguing was to no avail. Even telling her that variable naming was not in the assignment instructions was pointless as she said it had been self explanatory..
The others for whom computers are powered by magic, did their assignments as they had memorized everything that teacher had shown them. Why? Because she didn't teach them how to code in the first place. So they copied what would work.
Fucked up educational system, sadly nothing new..
Oh and btw, the naming she uses and teaches students to use is:
button1 - btname
label1- lbname
textBox1 - tbyear2 -
Thinking how the fuck did the variable became undefined and realizing you defined the variable in an asynchronous rest call...
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When you spend 3h trying to fix a procedure on MySQL and the problem was a f***** variable name. I felt so bad and sad :'(1
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My most challenging task during development is choosing variable names.
I make a mess during this process.5 -
Focused on debugging Javascript after being asked for help. Original developer narrowed it down to an if statement. It was acting like the if statement was assigning the variable and causing undefined. Tested console.log before evaluation. Tried !== instead of != and same thing. Even swapped undefined and variable so it would try to assign a variable named undefined instead... It took way too long for the both of us to realize the word "let" in front of the variable on the line withing the if statement block... It overwrite the variable the moment it entered the block.... FML.1
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A little help on Django
So I just started learning Python and Django Framework and I have one question...
Are the variables shared between visitors?
I mean, let's say I have a variable named "school"
school = "school1"
A visitor from X location enters and changes this variable to "school2". A new visitor enters the page from Y location and reads the variable 'school'. What is going to show on visitor Y? "school1" or "school2".2 -
Phpref tricked me into thinking my variable has no whitespaces in it. Damn. Fix your CSS please :D Debug the debugger :D
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C++ Really confuses me... I mean why when defining an array variable is the array notation on the variable name rather than the variable type?1
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I swear these underclassmen are in a contest to see how many unique one letter variable names they can come up.1
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When you spend 3hrs finding a bug which causes the logic to be incorrect, only to find out the you have given same variable names for diffrent purposes
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So I found a variable in some leagcy code with the name "abcdefghij".
I mean wtf, I could've understood qwerty or something, but, abcdefghij, real creative...😤 -
Not sure if other programming languages class a Boolean as an integer value buuuuuuut...
The amount of times I've seen people do code such as...
if(value == true) {
variable = "blah blah";
} else if(value == false) {
variable = "blah";
}
Instead of doing a simple 1D array and going...
variable = strings[value];
It drives me crazy, such a small thing that has no real benefit but... Ugh... Whyyyyyyy3 -
My partner randomly commit to the git.
"A missing semi colon"
"initiate a useless variable"
"adding comment to obvious code"
Hmm ok im done for the week.1 -
Built my first user generated content loading system that I still use today (obviously cleaned up code that doesn't contain the words fuck and cunt every second variable)
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I tend to write with long variable names instead of using too many comments to explain what i am doing in the code. Is it wrong?2
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The moment where a colleague writes code in php... declares a variable but does not assign a value... fresh palms3
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I just watched a friend scroll up on our python file to copy the string from a variable so she could paste it to concatenate it...
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Just fixed a bug I was working on for the last 2 days.. I have set a variable to 1 and everything is working now.
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First assignment after I learned about if-else-then and for loops: draw swastika with modifiable width variable2
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Maybe I shouldn't code today... or get more sleep.
Every single bug I had today was due to referencing the wrong variables... and not including 'this.'
How do you guard against creating variables with the same names in method and class scope?3 -
Just use a promise that sets this variable, and then you can use the variable as long as its after the promise declaration.
No, just no. Thats not now asynchronous code works.2 -
Just to clarify my previous rant:
In this case, refactoring meant changing class, method and variable names -
Ok Hibernate, when a variable has "ID" in it, you write the variable with "ID" in it. Not "Id".
Took me long to see that.
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When your teammate is thinking more about his vacations and when he leaves, you find that he calls a variable "cruise" on a project that has nothing related to it3
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Hate when I forget I rename x variable to y just for the compiler to fuck me in the ass by telling me x variable doesn't exist. FFS!!!1
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When the rest of your team doesn't know how to spell and use "colour" "grey" as variable names.
😑 It's "color" "gray" as far as I'm concerned.2 -
Spent the day refactoring old copy-pasted astronomical code with minimal commentary, cryptic variable names and missing mathematical symbols. Self documenting code my ass.1
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Time since the last bug caused by blindly copying code in a if/else and forgetting to change a variable: 0 Hours.
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Not really a project idea per se, more of a very robust plugin idea or IDE feature (Jetbrains preferably), for suggesting better variable names while writing code.
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Swear to God I've changed the type definition of the same variable (in SSIS) three times already.
Microsoft has a worse memory than me!
Ffs. -
tabs spaces oses languages what about using I instead of counter or index as a variable for for loop2
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Does anybody else dislike paranthesis less function call in ruby?
> a = something
How do I understand 'something' is a variable or a function?8 -
The web application which I'm making is fucking big for 1 person and suddenly I'm out of sensible variable names :@
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R
Dot can be used for variable name just like underscore. And to confuse, R has object oriented also2 -
In a legacy application i support written in classic asp, the guy who wrote it names his variable 'ok2go'
where d heck was he going? 😞😞😂1 -
Just like we have code developers there serious code breakers (if all is well, they atleast change the variable name)
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Fuck This.
I thought I was good at giving nicknames (to friends) then suddenly you run out of variable names.
:/2 -
I am asking here, because even stackoverflow community don't know the answer...
Does Doctrine DBAL support oci variable binding in Oracle or not? I need to know but there are no answer so far...
Hopefully, someone here knows :)1 -
Variable Naming process
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Fetching a data of Counties into a variable using Fetch API.
Variable Name: countyData.
The code review is going to be interesting.7 -
When coworkers leave their laptop unlocked we find a commonly used variable name and replace all name references with 'poop'
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Is it just me, or are the Jinja2 docs shit?
Won't tell me how to sort my JSON file via a JSON variable. Fucking irritating.
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