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Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
benhoyt.com/writings/name-before-type/benhoyt.comName before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'A variable's name is more important than its type, so the name should be more prominent and come first in declarations.
Replying to @lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
This doesn’t matter so so much that I don’t even have the words for it
The word is bikeshedding.
Replying to @sik0fewl@piefed.ca
bikeshedding: Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
Not a term I was aware of. Thanks!
Replying to @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
There was a pub in my town called the Bike Shed. I spent many happy hours there in futile discussions of marginal technical issues.
Alas, they’re now gone, I no longer drink alcohol, and the people I bikeshedded with have either died or moved away. I still occasionally shave a yak at work, though. Sometimes doing so is a necessary evil.