Most gratuitous comments

sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 16:43:51 EST 2014


On Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:33:16 PM UTC-8, c... at isbd.net wrote:
> s... at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > # increment x
> > x += 1
> 
> But it shouldn't say 'increment x', it should say 'add one to the line
> count' or some such.  Although changing the variable name to
> 'lineCount' would do almost as well.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> ·

This is the kind of pedantic crap I was referring to in another thread.

Of course I wouldn't call a variable 'x' unless it was representing an x coordinate in 2D or 3D space.



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