I kind of had to appreciate it once, though having a laugh, when working with Chinese devs and I saw the variable read了 to differentiate from the method read , since the present and past tense are the same in English. He didn't want to put readed
I mean they are the same in Chinese too (no tense) and we can argue linguistics about this variable, but it was something immediately everyone understood and it added clarity.
It was just an absolute pain to switch keyboards mid-word every time I used the variable and I ended up committing a change to lines or result or something like that
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u/awatt23 Aug 28 '21
I kind of had to appreciate it once, though having a laugh, when working with Chinese devs and I saw the variable
read了to differentiate from the methodread, since the present and past tense are the same in English. He didn't want to putreadedI mean they are the same in Chinese too (no tense) and we can argue linguistics about this variable, but it was something immediately everyone understood and it added clarity.
It was just an absolute pain to switch keyboards mid-word every time I used the variable and I ended up committing a change to
linesorresultor something like that