Hacker News Reader

> "anyone around for a round of bikeshedding? I need to name a thing"

I have to come up with many names for things in code every day. I can't imagine the slowdown having to workshop every name would incur...

View on HN

This is the kind of exercise can be done in the background while waiting for stuff to compile. It's also not for trivial things like private or local variables and such, so not really a frequently occurring speed bump.

An example would be a set of enum names that I need to share with my teammates, where it might be a lot of hassle to replace them all if we don't decide on proper names now, but any set of names would work.

I'm sure the names have different importance, though. A local variable name in a small method probably barely matters, whereas the name of a variable in a widely used external API matters quite a lot.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com