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Discussion on: No More Foo, Bar, and Baz

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Kelly Davis

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We learn/teach in code class to name variables with contextual meanings, for a reason: to make readable code. But as you have noted, the real world is infested with examples that use these meaningless abstractions, for no reason but convention. That's a pretty dumb reason to confuse learners.