okapilips, 2 months ago

@kevlin Just like in design, there are happy accidents, right?

I needed a new variable for a small project, but forgot I alr had another with the same name elsewhere. Luckily when I made the new variable it was an egregious mispelling 😅 That unintentional design has now persisted in the code for over a week 🤭

xandor9, 2 months ago

@kevlin this is also why naming is so hard to do properly
Give it the wrong name and it will be used in the wrong way or for the wrong things

underlap, 2 months ago

@xandor9 @kevlin I once worked with a team developing some monitoring code. They had a block diagram of the components on a white board. A large central box was labelled BITM. When I asked what that stood for, they told me: "Bit In The Middle"! 😬

xandor9, 2 months ago

@underlap @kevlin
I think I saw something similar called core for a the same reason
I thought it was the cure of the domain but it was just something in the middle 🤷

kevlin, 2 months ago

@xandor9 @underlap Oh, and then there's one of my all-time favourites: the class called Database.

Confused me as it had nothing to do with databases, so I asked the developer: "Oh, that's nothing to do with the database: it's the application controller. All the database stuff is in Database2." 🤦‍♂️

underlap, 2 months ago

@kevlin @xandor9 On Thursday one of my students coded a function to calculate the lengths of a list of strings, using map. The name of the function? christmas !