DEV Community

Discussion on: What’s your placeholder name?

Collapse
 
fen1499 profile image
Fen • Edited

"aux" as in auxiliary, or some random letter. In the past I didn't kept them as placeholders but as actual variable names. Eventually I came back to some few months old code and had to deal with something like:

int a(int x, int y, int* z) {
 ...
return aux;
}
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode