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Top Things That Annoy Programmers

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Re: Top Things That Annoy Programmers

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Post by Xichekolas »

jrockway wrote: post #44
aasarava wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's an example of an appropriate single-char variable name, in your opinion?

x, as in "f x = x + 2". What else are you going to call it? "addend"?

f = (+ 2)

(I'm not a huge fan of point-free, I'm just being facetious ;)

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Post by wglb »

roundsquare wrote: post #41
aasarava wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's an example of an appropriate single-char variable name, in your opinion?

If you are working in finance, you might use common single letter variables, for example if you are creating a black-scholes function. E.g. r = interest rate, etc...

Better to use 'rate' or 'irate'.
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