News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six. Parent comment

Re:Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six by dqpb on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:18PM (#32966602)
> Naming things is hard

Naming is hard unless you have a sensible concept hierarchy, and then naming is easy.

Concept hierarchies are hard, unless you have a sensible system model, and then concept hierarchies are easy.

System models are hard, unless you have domain expertise, and then system models are easy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six by marginalia_nu on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:32PM (#32966705)
Not everything is a neat concept though.

Look at the Porter stemming algorithm for example. It simply does not decompose into something that is easy to put names on.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six by dqpb on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:03PM (#32966926)
> A consonant will be denoted by c, a vowel by v. A list ccc... of length greater than 0 will be denoted by C, and a list vvv... of length greater than 0 will be denoted by V. Any word, or part of a word, therefore has one of the four forms: CVCV ... C CVCV ... V VCVC ... C VCVC ... V

Looks fine to me.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six by djbusby on Saturday September 24, 2022 @05:22PM (#32966631)
Domain expertise is hard.
[ Parent | on HN ]