Hi, > combined-list-of-files-in-all-source-folders
That is a phrase. I use keywords instead of phrases to give identifiers meaningful names. Suppose I want to scan for surrounding wifi transceivers and connect to one if an essid and password are available. I would call the function: int wifi_autoconnect(). In your example, resultant_list is describtive enough to be used. Edward On 25/01/2016, Apollia <apollia...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Weikusat < > rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > >> Apollia <apollia...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > I think if I ever did code much in C, my code would end up looking very >> > unusual and unconventional to many people, because I often like to use >> > long, descriptive names for functions and variables, no matter what >> > language I'm using, even Bash. >> >> This style isn't really uncommon for people used to IDEs doing >> identifier auto-completion. But that's not only a bitch to work with >> without it but also difficult to read because of the sheer verbosity of >> the text. Eg, using an identifier >> >> combined-list-of-files-in-all-source-folders >> >> doesn't really communicate more than 'all-files' or even just 'all' (if >> the files is evident from the context) would. >> > > Thanks for the feedback! Perhaps as I get more comfortable with > programming in general I'll stop relying so much on the crutch of overly > verbose names. I know I overdo it to some extent. > > But another thing I like about long, unique, non-generic names is that when > doing searches, I can more easily find definitely related pieces of code, > and avoid finding a lot of unrelated pieces of code which just happen to > use the same generic variable names like "x" or "all". > > > If I were a painter instead of a coder, perhaps I might be more of an > impressionist than a realist or a minimalist. But even that might be too > complimentary of my style. :-) Rather than impressionist, I'm maybe more > of a hasty, impatient finger-painter specializing in abstract blobs. :-) > Or a caricaturist who exaggerates many things ridiculously. :-) > > But, hopefully I'll learn to do better after plenty more practice, and > continuing to strive to learn as much as I can from wiser and more > knowledgeable people than me, such as you and probably everyone here. > > I'm probably going to go back to being mostly quiet now since I can't think > of much else of interest to add. > > But, thanks to you and everyone for all your fascinating, very educational > posts, and all the wonderful work you're all doing on Devuan! > > Best wishes, > Apollia > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
