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) //

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!"

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

null vs undefined

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

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 😕💭

C++ >>>>>

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**~

Variable naming conventions..

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

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

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...

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 😑

I just ate in Undefined

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

Meaningful variable names

Me everytime🙄

"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.

"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?😂

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.

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The hardest thing about coding is variable naming

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.

Coders Life

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

Are you Underscore or camelCase ?

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?"

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.

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

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

Found somewhere.

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 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

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

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.

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.

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 name 😂😂😂😂😴

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

checkStatus1
checkStatus2
checkStatusMyAss

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

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

they made editing the Path variable easier in win 10.

but control panel is harder to get to

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

Variable names DO matter.

Use Meaningful variable names, they said.

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

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

Goodbye report! 😂😂😂

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

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

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

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

No amount of coffee can prepare me for this code review

working on legacy code and saw this:

@records = unpublished_collection.published

Wait, what?

Dim [Dim] As Short

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

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

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

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

Commas.
I fix one display, and another breaks.

Now I’m getting “$$1002.99” and can’t figure out why. Where is this popup coming from? Where does the encrypted URL point to? What does this ajax call do? Where does the amount go? When does it change? Why is it a string now? Where does the total get defined? How far down the rabbit hole do I need to go?

Short short version:

I found something to try fixing. I made some changes, forced a crash to inspect, and… Joy! My log stopped updating. How long have I been debugging on stale data?

Skipping a long debugging session…

I discover a suspect instance var in a suspect method, and… i have no freaking clue where it’s being defined. It’s used in the class, but never defined in it. Oh, and the name is pretty generic, so searching for it is even more fun.

Just.
Qxfrfjkalstf.

WHO WRITES THIS CRAP?!
AND WHY DO PEOPLE CALL THEM “LEGENDS”? Like, really. That’s the word they use. “Legends.” I still can’t believe it.

Why did I mix English and Swedish variable names?

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

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

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

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

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

Remember this !

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

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

Error: undefined variable "social"

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.

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

Rip.

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

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

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

Those dang variables lol

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

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

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.

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>)
{

}

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 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...

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

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

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

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

Developers thinking name of a method or variable.

I should probably rename this variable...

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

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

Except you can't refactor stickers...

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

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

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

Stop using anal as variable name for analysis 😅

Descriptive variable names and method names > comments

first world problem.

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

ffs

When you can pull off using a variable variable.

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..

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

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

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

I'm always a little torn between writing

variable++;

Or

variable ++;

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()

Sometimes I spend way too much time on variable names xD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I should really use Postman

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.

Variable name
Descriptive VS Short

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

Came across a special variable name ::. dicParser

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

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

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

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.

Ah yes, R, the only language where a variable increment is harder to code than string manipulation :-)

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

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.

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

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

Whats your test/experimenting variable name?

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

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

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

I often mix languages in variable and function naming.

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).

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

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

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

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

God I hate JavaScript.

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

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

Obviously, I overdid it with the assembly study assignment this morning - just tried to bit-mask a variable using "andi". In C#.

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.

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

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’;
}

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.

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

When you turn a variable around!

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. :/

Every nodejs programmer:

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

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

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

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

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

$mess

My new favorite variable name 😎

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

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

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?

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

From a “tech lead”

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

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....

Can you help my friend in converting the html variable ?

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

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

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

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

*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

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

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

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

Who the fuck unironically names their variables My<Variable type>??

Out of variable names

oh, when you have to google to come up with a good descriptive variable name...