Funny variable names
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When I can't come up with a good name for a class, I sometimes ask a colleague (not a coder) for help... that's why there's a class called "ChiefCommander" in one of my projects (the class administrates many major parts of the app).
I worked on a build system for a company's huge software project. It had many options, and the variables inside the script files stored parameters for the build. For some reason, the variable names never exceeded 10 characters. For example, PROF_TOOL could contain the name of one of 3 different profiling tools, depending on the software language and version. In addition to PROF_TOOL, there were also: ARCH_TOOL - name of archiver COMP_TOOL - compiler LINK_TOOL - linker and my favorite, the code analysis tool : ANAL_TOOL . Everybody else at the company always spoke it to rhyme with "canal tool", but I took immature joy in always pronouncing it exactly the way it looks. "So which ANAL_TOOL were you using when you encountered the problem?" I'm a jerk.
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It just happened to me now. Following a legacy naming convention my class had an object named pipTable, then I added feedTable, and now poolTable. I know it's not really funny, but when I'm coding and see variable names form something meaningful, it makes me :). I know this has happened to me many times before, occasionally causing me to reconsider the convention when the name becomes R or even X rated. Does anyone else have any examples or funny stories to add?
wizardzz wrote:
have any examples
Financial software, Asset Manager = AssMgr In the old days (64KB was a lot), we had a program overlay on RAM that could reconfigure our machine tool software tables that resided in the RAM. The overlay program was call the Configurator. It was possible to reconfigure the system so that the RAM tables grew so large that they expanded into the Executive program area. We needed a flag for that, so that we could crash the executive program gracefully upon reload, instead of a run-away program. Name of the flag, of course, was FCEM 'Figurator Crashed Executive Memory. Yes, the FCEM flag (hard C, aka K). If it ever was TRUE, well, you were f....d. :-O
Gary
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sexual exceptions... At previous workplace there was a guy named Ray. A couple of us were looking at this weird stored proc and we kept on saying: "WTF is this Raise Error" "bloody Raise error is the cause of all our problems" He eventually stormed over and YELLS - "WHAT THE FUCK ITS NOT MY ERROR!"
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It just happened to me now. Following a legacy naming convention my class had an object named pipTable, then I added feedTable, and now poolTable. I know it's not really funny, but when I'm coding and see variable names form something meaningful, it makes me :). I know this has happened to me many times before, occasionally causing me to reconsider the convention when the name becomes R or even X rated. Does anyone else have any examples or funny stories to add?
well,I really think naming a varible is difficult,especially in a large project.It always takes me a lot of time to find out a meaningful name,and I often worried about whether I name two varibles the same name.
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Not exactly funny, but I knew a developer who named a
SocketExceptionvariablesex.I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
I did that in my recent code inadvertently and no wants to discuss that part in code review
Krishna ----------------------------------------------- VP:" This is an attrition time. The work is huge. If we do not complete in time, we will be paying huge penalty. Take all the resources you want, recruit or take people from other departments and complete the work in 25 days." Manager: (Humbly) "Sir, give me one wife and nine months and I shall show you results.Don't give me nine wives and one month, I cannot do anything." The VP just walked away
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It just happened to me now. Following a legacy naming convention my class had an object named pipTable, then I added feedTable, and now poolTable. I know it's not really funny, but when I'm coding and see variable names form something meaningful, it makes me :). I know this has happened to me many times before, occasionally causing me to reconsider the convention when the name becomes R or even X rated. Does anyone else have any examples or funny stories to add?
As I sit here reading this there is an ad just below ehhorting me to try some product called Aspose. Hmmm.. Is this for real?
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It just happened to me now. Following a legacy naming convention my class had an object named pipTable, then I added feedTable, and now poolTable. I know it's not really funny, but when I'm coding and see variable names form something meaningful, it makes me :). I know this has happened to me many times before, occasionally causing me to reconsider the convention when the name becomes R or even X rated. Does anyone else have any examples or funny stories to add?
it happens to me a lot because I mix spanish and english... english for prefixes like get, set, delete... and spanish for business objects. A friend some weeks ago wrote something like GetFacturasByFecha (which means GetBillsByDate) kinda funny when someone else checks it and tries to understand what were the developer thinking to write something like that xD
_class MySignature _{ __public override void toString() __{ ____return "hi ;)"; __} _}
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COMIC is: a person who tells jokes, aka comedian. a child (or adult)'s magazine containing strip cartoons something that is supposed to be serious but makes people laugh inadvertently so a piece of software called COMIC is asking for trouble.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
A bit off topic, but the same idea on a grander scale: There once was a vehicle from Chevrolet call the Nova - named after an exploding star to most of us . . . . . . but, in Latin America, the car just wouldn't sell . . . Because, in Spanish, Nova is read "No Va", which translates to Won't Go (literally, No Go). Did someone say oops ?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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A bit off topic, but the same idea on a grander scale: There once was a vehicle from Chevrolet call the Nova - named after an exploding star to most of us . . . . . . but, in Latin America, the car just wouldn't sell . . . Because, in Spanish, Nova is read "No Va", which translates to Won't Go (literally, No Go). Did someone say oops ?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek dissappointment. If you are searching for perfection in yourself, then you seek failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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When I can't come up with a good name for a class, I sometimes ask a colleague (not a coder) for help... that's why there's a class called "ChiefCommander" in one of my projects (the class administrates many major parts of the app).
Tak wrote:
ChiefCommander
a.k.a. "God".
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel