DEV Community

Discussion on: Against 'foo' (and 'bar' too)

Collapse
 
tailcall profile image
Maria Zaitseva

I never tell people the compiler doesn't care about meaningful variable names and that they're just for humans.

I tell people that if they use meaningless names, compiler will judge them silently.

Collapse
 
thorstenhirsch profile image
Thorsten Hirsch

Brilliant! 😁😁😁 I hope you don't mind me copying that.