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Advanced studies in naming temporary variables


If you think programming, or at least some parts of it, can’t be elevated
to an art form, you’re sorely mistaken. Developers’ creativity really gets going when they have to
name temporary variables. My foo and hoo seem a little dull compared with some names I’ve seen.

One colleague even took inspiration from fruit and vegetables: pomik, kiwik, svestik, tresnik. I’ve seen inventive interface names like Bordel and Kybl, and method names like hodDoKyblu and vyndejZkyblu. But none of those unorthodox names left me as speechless as the following code.

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