• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I used to work with a guy who insisted his code was self explanatory, and then he'd nest loops 5 levels deep and give variables names like "thingyOne".

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        Namely, the first one. Next you're going to ask about thingySixtyNine or thingyOneHundredTwentyTwo, I suppose?

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          I wonder if there's a warning for that in Clang or GCC. That seems like something I'd want, but also want it to be 100% opt-in. Not even enabled with -Wall or -Wextra.

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      That guy wasn't in charge, I hope? That would not have passed code review with me at least.

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      I worked with a guy who was smart but “useless smart”. He was convinced that “code is self descriptive”, that is comments are not needed because the code speaks for itself. Well that is like saying DNA is self descriptive. Yes, I can sit there tracing the code, tracking the variables, etc or you could make a small effort to describe what is happening instead and save me a lot of time and risk missing subtle points.