Discussion on: Do you have a process for naming things?

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• Follow existing convention where reasonable, otherwise pick something sane (IDE default, defacto standard for the language/framework, etc.)
• Most obvious/expected, not too generic or clever or obscenelylongeither
• Consideration proportional to visibility (public API is important, locals/privates less so)
• Should be enforced by IDE/tooling, not long list of arcane rules nobody remembers
• Avoid duplicating language features: namespaces, variable types, etc.
• Remain open to renaming/refactoring