Re:How to name things in programming
by jacquesm on Monday May 25, 2015 @05:20AM
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And try to pick words that are lexicographically distant from each other to minimize the chance of single letter typos changing the meaning of the code.
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Of course it's a tiny matter of terminology, but you probably mean Hamming distant, not lexicographically distant. `zaaaaa` is lexicographically farther from `aaaaaa` than is `bbbbbb`, but Hamming closer.