People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- People who grasp context would resent external control over how they name things.
- In plain terms
- Context‑aware people dislike others dictating naming.
- What can you take from it?
- Respect domain knowledge when defining terminology.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How to balance expertise with consistency?
- When should naming be enforced?
Another view
Sometimes standardization is needed despite personal preferences.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
Permalink to quote #156 For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
Permalink to quote #158 The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'. :-)
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