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Re:Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debu... by maleldil on Thursday October 10, 2024 @06:57PM (#41804424)
Interesting how this seems to go completely against another post I saw here: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/against-names/
Re:Local Variables as Accidental Breadcrumbs for Faster Debu... by zahlman on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:39AM (#41807557)
Pythonistas have a saying for that: "...Although practicality beats purity". It rarely makes sense to apply dogmatic programming advice absolutely. It's a good idea to expect titles to be clickbait, consider context and reasoning, etc. Sometimes code has too many names and sometimes it has too few.