(Ovid) Re: Favorite Descriptive Variable Name

[Ovid]

I was working on a program once where the author named his variables after different types of alcohol. One line in the program was:

COMPUTE MARTINI = GIN + VERMOUTH.

I could have killed him.

Cheers,
Ovid

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[Blue]

I've occasionally punned with variable names. One I like (and I forget where I first saw it) was %cornedbeef. (corned beef hash). I've been do to do { ... } until $cows_come_home; or { ... } until $hell_freezes_over; for nigh-endless loops.

When I'm not being creative, I find myself occasionally using junk variables like $stuff, $stuf, $stuph, $morestuff, $yetmorestuff, $evenmorestuff, $toomuchstuff, so on and so forth.

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[japhy]

When calling the function phish() or moe(), I'll often pass the %|. Especially because I don't need it. ;)

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[extremely]

Oh man, you should be stoned to death for that one... Also, I was happy to see that the hippy spirit is alive in perl, perl -we 'my %|;' =)

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[Fengor]

I once reviewed a program with lots of cinematic references like:

MOVE INDIANA_JONES TO TEMPLE_OF_DEATH

cheers, fengor
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