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Re: How do you pronounce variable names?

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Feb 18, 2008 at 16:47 UTC ( [id://668603]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do you pronounce variable names?

If I'm showing code to someone, there's usually no need to pronounce the sigil at all (e.g. "friends has 2 elements"). I'd probably be more likely to say "scalar" and "array" for "$" and "@" in this situation. I might even call the variable by its value instead of by its name (e.g. "Then I 'draw' the circle." for $form->draw()).

If I'm dictating code, completeness and clarity is important, so I'd specify the symbols by name (e.g. "dollar friends equal 2 semicolon.").

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Re^2: How do you pronounce variable names?
by holli (Abbot) on Feb 18, 2008 at 17:02 UTC
    Ok, I'll bite. When and under hat circumstances are you "dictating" code?


    holli, /regexed monk/
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      When I'm writing code using Microsoft Speech Recognition. It goes something like this: 
      me:  my dollar sign t=1;
computer: my dolls are singing tequila 1 semi goin;

      [download]
      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum
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[d/l]
      Yes, inquiring minds need to know. (Interviews, perhaps?)
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      When discussing or teaching syntax
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