What coding mnemonics do you use?

Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by anonymous on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:53AM (#6172416)

Ah, yes the "I can't fit it to my mental model, therefore it is impossible" argument.

When little, my brother used to mix up the words "more" and "less" while speaking. I don't doubt someone could mix up > and <.

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Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by Chris2048 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @01:18PM (#6174128)

It's easy. They're alligator mouths, that always go for the larger number (greedy alligators!)...

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Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by ronaldx on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:46PM (#6176674)

This genuinely confused me because I thought the larger number would eat the smaller number.

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Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by Chris2048 on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @05:53PM (#6214567)

The alligator is just the symbol, ignoring the smaller number completely.

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Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by blablabla123 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:52AM (#6172786)

I used to mix it up in elementary school because the school teacher explained that "<" is "less" and ">" is "more". Even worse, she suggested to memorize it like this: |<leiner = kleiner (german, meaning less)

At some point I realized it's possible to memorize it visually, since then I never mixed it up again

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Re:What coding mnemonics do you use? by inthewind on Friday August 16, 2013 @04:33AM (#6222816)

Yeah people frequently mix up left and right also. And my brother always wrote his numbers backwards or rather left to right (units on the left).

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