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Software Design with John Ousterhout

Legacy Code Rocks

CHAPTER

How to Avoid Naming Guidelines in Code Review

Luke: There's tons of one thing tools that will, you know, naming guidelines and indentation and bracket placement. Some libraries will even have winter warnings for making sure you're using certain primitives correctly or I know in the dot net ecosystem they have a synchronous semantics built into the language. Luke: Names are so important. One of the most important elements of design. And it's an area where people cut corners all the time. They just don't spend time thinking about it. Just grab the first name that comes to mind.

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