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Recently, a steamer said they \"prefer verbosity over abstraction\/confusion\".<\/p>\n\n
In that scenario, it was regarding the name of a microservice they were creating. It was long and verbose, but it described what it did.<\/p>\n\n
It was clear to anyone working on that project what that service did, now and in the future.<\/p>\n\n
I prefer this to shorter, less-descriptive names.<\/p>\n\n
I hardly ever create a variable called I like to write descriptive names for test methods that explain what the test is doing. Even if I start with a vague name, I'll refactor it to make it more specific and clearer.<\/p>\n\n I prefer not to use PHP functions like I prefer code to be verbose, descriptive and easy to read, understand and change.<\/p>\n\n ",
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}$x<\/code>,
$k<\/code> or
$v<\/code>. I only would if it was clear what it meant within its context.<\/p>\n\n
compact<\/code> and to write it out and avoid the abstraction and any confusion it could cause.<\/p>\n\n
$x<\/code>,
$k<\/code> or
$v<\/code>. I only would if it was clear what it meant within its context.<\/p>\n\n
compact<\/code> and to write it out and avoid the abstraction and any confusion it could cause.<\/p>\n\n