Unique function name. Globally.

Lutoslaw

'4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6f'(User, SomeVar)

Yep, this is an actual function signature in production code. (Erlang)

RugbyLeague

Makes more sense than some of the COBOL procedure and variable names I used to be faced with

BillW33

That does look to be a unique name, but certainly not the best choice of a method name; sadly not the worst method name I have ever seen either X|

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Anurag Gandhi

Hmm, Should be considered as a best practice in JavaScript kind of language. :laugh:

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Brisingr Aerowing

:wtf: That's crazy! I am glad I don't use Erlang!

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Mycroft Holmes

Just reading the title of the reference book[^] confirms that I would want nothing to do with that!

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Sander Rossel

Well crap, I've used that exact function name just yesterday... :sigh:

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Brady Kelly

Someone using that as a function name is certainly no fault of Erlang, but that of a coder who should by up on disciplinary proceedings.

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Daniel Pfeffer

Brady Kelly wrote:

Someone using that as a function name is certainly no fault of Erlang, but that of a coder who should be up on disciplinary proceedingshanged by the neck until dead, then hung from the lamppost outside work as a warning to others.

FTFY :)

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Ed Korsberg

I oddly like this. This function is presumably generated and used by some automated code generator and not something a human programmer would have to reference.

Gary Wheeler

Yes, but some poor schmuck may have to deal with it. There should be a way to generate a friendly unique name based on the original source construct that caused the name to be generated. If nothing else, it could be based on the source file path and line number, just as an example.

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Lutoslaw

Well, it's me who did it. It was approved by all coworkes though. In Erlang we have many single-use one-liner overloads to take advantage of pattern matching. Such code is repeated in so many places that this kind of joke doesn't really hurt anyone. More code:

compute_price('POST', [], User) ->
'4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6f'(User, User:role_atom()).

'4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6f'(User, some_atom) ->
{JsonProps, Product} = process_request(Req, User),
RangesFromJson = calendar_lib:json_ranges_to_month_records(proplists:get_value(<<"ranges">>, JsonProps)),
UserClickCounts = [ Range:click_count() || Range <- RangesFromJson],
...

This is a very good language to implent any buisness logic or algorithms, but terrible if you try to interact with a front-end in web development

Herbie Mountjoy

I'm sure Yoda will understand that.

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Lutoslaw

Ed Korsberg wrote:

This function is presumably generated and used by some automated code generator

It's not.

nanovad

There's a similar book for learning Haskell, I believe. "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good"[^]

Amarnath S

Not only that; there are three other functions, within the same file, with names:

4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6**g(User, SomeVar),
4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6h(User, SomeVar),
4d568c9e-cb32-4db1-a276-26cb06cc3f6j**(User, SomeVar),

Maybe they should add this functionality to Intellisense: string matching from the trailing end :-)

OriginalGriff

FORTRAN was always good too: six character variable and subroutine names...got a little cryptic in large projects. :laugh:

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RugbyLeague

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Forogar

FORTRAN IV... ah, that brings back old memories... not good ones, but old memories nonetheless!

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RugbyLeague

arrays of 16 bit integers to store strings and bit shifting and masking to access individual characters. Always fun