Per Vognsen on Nostr: There's long-running debate in programming about brevity vs descriptiveness for ...
There's long-running debate in programming about brevity vs descriptiveness for names, but something I don't see pointed out is that strong conventions (either universally or in your code base) like 'ptr' for memory pointer and 'idx' for sequence index are _more_ descriptive than 'pointer' and 'index'. A 'pointer' could be a mouse pointer and an 'index' could be a database index.
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