[Duckington]

Came across this in our company code a while ago.

It's a small section of a large cron script which I was supposed to be going through and editing.

	
	        if ($s > 0)
	        {
	            mtrace ($s.' course(s) were skipped (duplicate ShortName)');
	        }
	        if ($p > 0)
	        {
	            mtrace ($p.' course(s) could not be fully created, due to errors. Though they make work, it is advisable to delete them and try again.');
	        }   
	        if (($e = $t - $n - $s - $p) > 0)
	        {
	            mtrace ($e.' course(s) failed due to errors');
	        }
	        
	        if ($cat_e > 0)
	        {
	            mtrace ($cat_e.' new category(ies) failed due to errors');
	        }
	            
	        if ($cat_c > 0) 
	        {
	            mtrace ($cat_c.' new category(ies) were created');
	            mtrace ('You may wish to manually Re-Sort the categories');
	            
	            // We don't automatically sort alphabetically, as the somewhat clunky category sorting
	            // method used by moodle could annoy the user
	        }

Yeah I didn't have a clue either. When I eventually found $s, $p, $n, $t, etc... the letters weren't even anything to do with what the variable stood for.

Gave up in the end and just re-wrote the entire thing my way, works much better now.

[ragingben]

Yeah, crazy variable names do my head in. When I rewrote the software for one of the medical robots we make at work (I took over from my boss who was the only coder) I found a variable named nicePanini and a goto mmmBrieBaconBaguette. Made converting it way more confusing than it needed to be

[JackOfAllTrades]

I would warn anyone who worked for me and used nonsensical variable names ONCE. If it continued, they would be soon to join the unemployment line.

[nelsonhoover]

ragingben, on 16 February 2012 - 03:42 AM, said:

the software for one of the medical robots we make at work (I took over from my boss who was the only coder)

Wow, Hopefully it's not some heart surgery robot or something. Sure wouldn't feel comfortable having a robot work on me that had all sorts of cute variable names, etc, in the code.

[Braber01]

Isn't there an Exception for Python Coders?

[e_i_pi]

We had a guy at our work who used silly variable names. Had...

This post has been edited by e_i_pi: 24 February 2012 - 12:23 AM