My best/worst variable name ever

Dale Barnard

I just renamed someone's identifier that was called 'data' to be more self documenting: 'listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel' I should either be promoted or fired for that. I'm not sure which. Can anyone top that for self-documenting identifier names?

jeron1

Thank god for autocomplete!

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

Amarnath S

Will be nice to name another variable within the same file as: listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOne**Un**scaledColorChannel

Lost User

Proposed return value for the method; an enum and an object, with the enum identifying the object. public enum Result { Yes, No, listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneUnscaledColorChannel }

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

Gary Wheeler

I hate camelCase. ... and then the fight started.

Software Zen: delete this;

Lost User

Makes me wonder what camelCase has done to you. Do you want to talk about it?

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

Gary Wheeler

Nah. It'll just accuse me of going behind its back.

Software Zen: delete this;

Richard Deeming

Dale Barnard wrote:

I should either be promoted or fired for that. I'm not sure which.

Promoted to a management position, where you can't do any more damage. :-D

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Jeremy Falcon

Gary Wheeler wrote:

I hate camelCase.

And somehow I read that as I hate camelToe. It's Friday alright.

Jeremy Falcon

Gary Wheeler

In an odd way that works too, as I have arthritis in my big toes from 20 years of running, and that joint no longer bends beyond about 10°.

Software Zen: delete this;

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

ThatIsOffensiveInTheExtreme

Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Seriously? Why? What do you do instead?

Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Oooh, dirty.

Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

That's ... ... sad & lonely.

Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

Gary Wheeler

I use PascalCase for global scope, lower_case for local scope, private and protected members prefixed by '_'. Yes, StyleCop throws a hissy fit over my code. I don't care. camelCase doesn't provide enough visual differentiation from PascalCase for me and my middle-aged visual infirmities.

Software Zen: delete this;

Gary Wheeler

My biggest complaint about the name is that you spend over half of it replicating the type (listOfThreeListsOfByteArray), which smacks of Hungarian notation (makes the sign of the cross in your direction). The RowThenColumn part implies a matrix of some kind, and the ScaledColorChannel sounds like it actually describes the values in the matrix. Why not ScaledColorChannelMatrix and call it a day?

Software Zen: delete this;

Dale Barnard

var listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel = new List<byte[,]>[3];
listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel[0] = new List<byte[,]>();
listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel[1] = new List<byte[,]>();
listOfThreeListsOfByteArrayRowThenColumnOfOneScaledColorChannel[2] = new List<byte[,]>();

Gary Wheeler

var ScaledColorChannelMatrixListTable = new List<byte[,]>[3];
for (int i = 0; i < ScaledColorChannelMatrixListTable.Length; i++)
{
ScaledColorChannelMatrixListTable[i] = new List<byte[,]>();
}

do I hear banjos in the background?

Software Zen: delete this;

realJSOP

I suppose camelCase is better than camelToe...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

realJSOP

I use COWCase a lot.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013