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[-] Hammerheart@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago

short variable names, and the only vowel is 'i'

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

I inherited an old Japanese codebase. Tons of stuff was just single-letter variables. Apparently, this used to be at least somewhat common here. I spent a lot of time just updating code to replace vars with something meaningful (and found bonus bugs due to improper scoping with same var names as a bonus). Didn't have an IDE that would easily do it for me at the time and running something like sed felt too risky.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) 
from multiprocessing import Lock
l = Lock()

flake8 .... way too ambiguous

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