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Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or consider snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

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[-] faebudo@infosec.pub 106 points 2 weeks ago

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequest

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago

This person Javas…

[-] elvith@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't that imply the existence of a ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequestFactorySingleton?

[-] IHateReddit@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

And an AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilder!

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly you can't build a singleton. AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactoryBuilder$Companion?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

80 char line maximum? I read that as minimum. My bad.

[-] abrahambelch@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilderDecoratorDelegationStrategyDispatcher

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Doing that with GNU or WINE will use your entire memory

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

GNU's Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix CORE DUMP: OUT OF MEMORY EXCEPTION

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 1 week ago

Needs more AbstractSingletonBeanProxyFactoryDefaultImplementation

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or I dunno try snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

kebab case for the win xml-http-request

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

XML-HTTP-request?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

XHR boom. Sue me :)

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

OP is dead now. Are you happy?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes!

May OP request in peace

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

I regret nothing!

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

id throw away all of these if they aren’t struct definitions, which they aren’t.

[-] jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

xhr

[+] Boomkop3@reddthat.com -12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't like to sticking to generalized naming conventions when autofill or intellisense is a thing. Make your names clear in whatever way you think works best, and developers still using vim can set up autocomplete using an extension or something

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 23 points 2 weeks ago

Dear god please no. This way madness lies. Your idea of "whatever you think works best" is not going to line up with whatever the next person that comes along thinks, and your codebase is about to get all kinds of fucked up.

Thinking code complete is going to save you is naive. Even in languages like C and Java, where it works best, you still need to be able to read and understand the code in context. There's no hope in a language like Ruby with all it's meta programming stuff

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not suggesting randomness or inconsistency, I'm saying generalizing is overkill. But you're right, "whatever works" might be taken too literal by some

You're absolutely right that depending on your autofill is not a good general approach either. Then again, you shouldn't be guessing at these either

I've worked with changing conventions in different teams. In the end people are not going to come up with some name and whether it's myOldThing or my_old_thing won't matter much. Usually I just follow whatever the team I'm working with prefers

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes and no. I agree that camel vs snake or that stupid mNameThing that was popular for a while, doesn't reeeeeaaally matter, although I would argue that convention over the language still has value. As an example, naming a Java variable with a capital letter would be confusing and annoying to any new devs joining the project, even if it's a valid identifier. Also it's handy to be able to look at something in ALL_CAPS and know that it's probably a static final, without having to check it's definition. I guess it's about finding that line between useful conventions and pedantry.

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