DevConfession

I often google names for my variables to see if I find a betrer fitting synonym that reads better

is there a tool which helps you to find the right variable name and does based on this a documentation?

I wish my colleagues would do that.
It's so annoying if you see a variable, function or classname that has been translated literally with the wrong meaning. And usually it's too late to change it without big effort, once it's been introduced this way.

Surely we all had scenarios like these, but still. I had two friends that used the following as variable names:
- variables with the minimum characters possible: a, b, c, bb, zz, xx.. no matter what they were used for. From cycles to full blown objects; debugging was hell; deleting everything was ideal; he sucked at programming and now plays online poker for a living; great guy to be with, though;
- variables with dirty words; dick, piss, c*nt..funny to see it in errors, horror to see the boss looking at the code; this guy sucked worse at programming, actually, i still doubt if he should be called a programmer, although he was the senior coder on that company..

Forgive the long comment rant.

Me too, but I use the English Oxford dictionary and I always end up with names like "thyShallCommand()"...

And here me, sneaking a pornstar name as variable in every code file i wrote.

Oh my god that is an amazing idea!!! I'm going to do that now!

Guys let's write a program to generate helpful variable names based on a description written by the dev!

@chadd17 you can say that again!

Guys let's write a program to generate
Just kidding

Never thought of doing that but it actually sounds like a good idea

@Letmecode i read random words, i get bored pretty fast

Wait so using variables like f1, f2, f3... And g1, g2, g3, g4 is bad?

@playmast3r True

Simplified hungarian notation:

int i, i2;
string s;
char c;
double d;
boolean b;