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The Six Stages of Code Grief (suppo.fi)

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago

With the short variable you probably also get shadowing. That's super fun in a new code base.

Or another favourite of mine: The first time I had to edit a perl script at work someone had used a scalar and a hash with the same name. Took me a while to realize that scalars, arrays, and hashes have separate namespaces, and the two things with seemingly the same name were unrelated.