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> If you name things after what they do, and that name is stupid, then it’s the quickest indicator of bad design I’ve ever seen.

As a reader of the code I think 'FooAndMaybeBar_SpecialBazSupportV2 ()' is a blessing.

Aiming for cleaness when the problem is not clean is a worse sin than messy code that could be clean.



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