I vote for #1. Just a reflection of me, really. The "I'll come back later and clean this up" stuff never happens. Besides, meaningful creating memvar names helps me think through the process. They don't take any longer to type then X1, X2, even for me at my blistering 40 wpm.
$.02 towards the adult libation of your choice. Ken On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:17 PM, M Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > It be Friday... > > My job title is "Business Systems Analyst" but in reality I'm just a > glorified helpdesk wonk... I do anything ad hoc, special projects, > things that might need a bigger, more experienced brain to deal with > the complexities, but really this job just ain't much of a challenge. > > But it IS stressful because I seem to get a lot of the last minute > do-it-now stuff that people have blown off for 3 weeks... > > So anyways, I get few chances to write any code, and when I do, I > usually don't have much time to do it. Such is my current lot in > life... > > When I write code (in MS Access or ASP), I just cobble it together > since I just try and get the gist of something going so I then know > how much more time/effort it might take to get the whole thing done. > > So I tend to start off w/ variable names like good ol' X or X1 or X2 > etc.... just to get the thing running. > > After getting something actually DONE yesterday, I had some down time > so decided to clean up my code a bit and put in real var names. Not > bothering to let the editor do a search/replace like I should have, I > typed them by hand and of course I botched it up... > > So I'm not sure which is the worse case of laziness - not doing proper > var names to begin with (even though not really sure where I'm going > to go with the program in general), or not using the lightening fast > and accurate tool that would have done the renaming work for me in the > first place.... > > <g> > > -- > Matt Jarvis > Eugene, Oregon USA > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFyV=LkTuhkqDv63ATY7ZT+9g8s6e9Vr1ZyFZ=+R-rz=d8+...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
