Re:Willingness to look stupid
by Buttons840 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:09PM
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Yep, eventually you're asking things like, "does the variable called 'username' contain the username?" Not too long ago I found that 'username', in fact, did not contain the username.
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I once had a co-worker at a small company (2 developers, me and him).
In the spirit of doing less work, he proposed to me changing the meaning of "someProperty" to mean something different, without changing the name of that property.
Also, it was a boolean; so he wanted true values to actually represent false, and vice versa.
I politely pushed back on that one.