• Dandroid@dandroid.app
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    1 year ago

    When I was in college, I had a guy that I was working on a project with that did this constantly. At one point I looked at one of his files and the variables were named a, b, c, aa, ab, ac, ba, bb, etc. That when I was like, bro, you gotta stop doing this.

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      1 year ago

      “Inside you there are two wolves…” or something:

      Option 1: Sit down with them and go line by line through it. Make him identify each variable’s purpose and then immediately find and replace to rename every instance with a more descriptive name.

      Option 2: Small script to shuffle the variable names in his code around after each of his commits.