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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by toastal@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or consider snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

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[-] faebudo@infosec.pub 113 points 11 months ago

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequest

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

This person Javas…

[-] elvith@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't that imply the existence of a ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequestFactorySingleton?

[-] IHateReddit@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

And an AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilder!

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

Sadly you can't build a singleton. AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactoryBuilder$Companion?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

80 char line maximum? I read that as minimum. My bad.

[-] abrahambelch@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilderDecoratorDelegationStrategyDispatcher

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Doing that with GNU or WINE will use your entire memory

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

GNU's Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix CORE DUMP: OUT OF MEMORY EXCEPTION

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Needs more AbstractSingletonBeanProxyFactoryDefaultImplementation

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or I dunno try snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

kebab case for the win xml-http-request

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

XML-HTTP-request?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

XHR boom. Sue me :)

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

OP is dead now. Are you happy?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes!

May OP request in peace

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I regret nothing!

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

id throw away all of these if they aren’t struct definitions, which they aren’t.

[-] jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

xhr

[+] Boomkop3@reddthat.com -12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't like to sticking to generalized naming conventions when autofill or intellisense is a thing. Make your names clear in whatever way you think works best, and developers still using vim can set up autocomplete using an extension or something

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 24 points 11 months ago

Dear god please no. This way madness lies. Your idea of "whatever you think works best" is not going to line up with whatever the next person that comes along thinks, and your codebase is about to get all kinds of fucked up.

Thinking code complete is going to save you is naive. Even in languages like C and Java, where it works best, you still need to be able to read and understand the code in context. There's no hope in a language like Ruby with all it's meta programming stuff

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 8 points 11 months ago

I'm not suggesting randomness or inconsistency, I'm saying generalizing is overkill. But you're right, "whatever works" might be taken too literal by some

You're absolutely right that depending on your autofill is not a good general approach either. Then again, you shouldn't be guessing at these either

I've worked with changing conventions in different teams. In the end people are not going to come up with some name and whether it's myOldThing or my_old_thing won't matter much. Usually I just follow whatever the team I'm working with prefers

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 5 points 11 months ago

Yes and no. I agree that camel vs snake or that stupid mNameThing that was popular for a while, doesn't reeeeeaaally matter, although I would argue that convention over the language still has value. As an example, naming a Java variable with a capital letter would be confusing and annoying to any new devs joining the project, even if it's a valid identifier. Also it's handy to be able to look at something in ALL_CAPS and know that it's probably a static final, without having to check it's definition. I guess it's about finding that line between useful conventions and pedantry.

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