Naming Conventions Need to Add Value

Naming conventions: the only aspect of code formatting more contentious than where to put your braces (for the record, braces go on a new line). We all have our favorites, and anybody who doesn’t comply is an idiot. Not a regular idiot either like the person who says cut and paste when they mean copy and paste, but a major idiot like that guy in the office who can’t figure out how to Google error messages (we all know one).

So here’s the big question: how do you know your naming conventions are right?

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