Re:DRY Is a Trade-Off
by gregmac on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:35PM
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Some of the highest value-to-effort feedback I've both given and received in a PR is about naming. Whenever I see something where my first impulse is to react with "WTF?!?" I now try to ask myself "does something here just have a bad name?" and much of the time that's all it is.
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I was working on a financial trading program at one point, specifically a function to filter orders into bids and asks. They named the order value "total" and the order size "sum".
It made a really simple function incredibly difficult to read.