From the course: Agile Software Development: Clean Coding Practices
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Prefer clarity over brevity
From the course: Agile Software Development: Clean Coding Practices
Prefer clarity over brevity
- [Narrator] When writing code, it can be tempting to name things in a very short and terse way. It's fewer characters that you have to type and the computer is able to understand your meaning just fine. But the primary audience for the code that we write is that they're humans. So we need to make sure we're putting a preference on putting names that are clear. Clear names are better than brief ones. A frequent place where overly brief names are found is in code that loops over an array. Let's take a peak at this loop. This loop is using i as the value that's used to index into the fruits array. In a file this short, it's not a big issue. It only takes a few seconds for the reader to understand what's going on. But why are we making the reader take those few extra seconds to understand our intent? Also, take note of the variable that's used to store the array value for each loop iteration. We can make an educated…
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