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The fine art of naming variables

         

volatilegx

4:29 pm on Dec 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Every other programmer must have run into this problem at least a time or two. You're working on a script and you loose track of the variable names you're using, so you start giving new variables goofy names just so they don't overwrite old variables.

$foo, $fubar, $bar, $blah

etc.

Any other good ones out there? :)

photon

5:13 pm on Dec 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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$goober, $bob, ....

Fiver

5:23 pm on Dec 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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$mywife
$notmywife

pretty much makes you double check you're not mixing them up every time.

volatilegx

5:58 pm on Dec 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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hehe Fiver

bakedjake

6:31 pm on Dec 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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ROFLMAO. That's going in my blog.