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Coding etiquette: Don't shorten your code (codemy.net)
5 points by artellectual on July 23, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Absolutely! Editors have autocompletion feature for the lazy typists. Bad identifiers can cost you jobs!


Actually, in some environments bad identifiers could save your job: Job Security through Code Obscurity. It's sad, but more often than not true.


Agreed with the point but damn that was some awful writing!


Sorry about that. I hit the publish button way too early on this one, no excuses.




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