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XᴍʟHᴛᴛᴘRequest (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by toastal@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or consider snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

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[–] faebudo@infosec.pub 113 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequest

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This person Javas…

[–] elvith@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that imply the existence of a ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransferProtocolRequestFactorySingleton?

[–] IHateReddit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And an AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilder!

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly you can't build a singleton. AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactoryBuilder$Companion?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

80 char line maximum? I read that as minimum. My bad.

[–] abrahambelch@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHypertextTransformerProtocolRequestFactorySingletonBuilderDecoratorDelegationStrategyDispatcher

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doing that with GNU or WINE will use your entire memory

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

GNU's Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix CORE DUMP: OUT OF MEMORY EXCEPTION

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Needs more AbstractSingletonBeanProxyFactoryDefaultImplementation

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms/intialism use capital letters to encode information about words. Losing that information is a mistake. SᴍᴀʟʟCᴀᴘCᴀsᴇ is now considered a best practice.

…Or I dunno try snake_case or kebab-case 🤷

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

kebab case for the win xml-http-request

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

XML-HTTP-request?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

XHR boom. Sue me :)

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OP is dead now. Are you happy?

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes!

May OP request in peace

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I regret nothing!

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

id throw away all of these if they aren’t struct definitions, which they aren’t.

[–] jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

xhr

[+] Boomkop3@reddthat.com -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't like to sticking to generalized naming conventions when autofill or intellisense is a thing. Make your names clear in whatever way you think works best, and developers still using vim can set up autocomplete using an extension or something

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dear god please no. This way madness lies. Your idea of "whatever you think works best" is not going to line up with whatever the next person that comes along thinks, and your codebase is about to get all kinds of fucked up.

Thinking code complete is going to save you is naive. Even in languages like C and Java, where it works best, you still need to be able to read and understand the code in context. There's no hope in a language like Ruby with all it's meta programming stuff

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not suggesting randomness or inconsistency, I'm saying generalizing is overkill. But you're right, "whatever works" might be taken too literal by some

You're absolutely right that depending on your autofill is not a good general approach either. Then again, you shouldn't be guessing at these either

I've worked with changing conventions in different teams. In the end people are not going to come up with some name and whether it's myOldThing or my_old_thing won't matter much. Usually I just follow whatever the team I'm working with prefers

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 5 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. I agree that camel vs snake or that stupid mNameThing that was popular for a while, doesn't reeeeeaaally matter, although I would argue that convention over the language still has value. As an example, naming a Java variable with a capital letter would be confusing and annoying to any new devs joining the project, even if it's a valid identifier. Also it's handy to be able to look at something in ALL_CAPS and know that it's probably a static final, without having to check it's definition. I guess it's about finding that line between useful conventions and pedantry.