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Where do you declare variables? The top of a method or when you need them?
I am in sort of a dilemma (in a geekish way of course).
I love to declare variables at the beginning of my methods, and usually order them in some logical way.
The problem is, when the list gets ...
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Should I reuse variables?
Should I reuse variables?
I know that many best practice say you should not do it, however later when different developer is debugging the code and have 3 variables that look a like and only ...
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Intentional misspellings to avoid reserved words
I often see code that include intentional misspellings of common words that for better or worse have become reserved words:
klass or clazz for class: Class clazz = ThisClass.class
kount for count in ...
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Variable names: underscores, no underscores, or camel case?
Variable names can be written in many ways, but the most common that I'm familiar with are:
thisisavariable,
this_is_a_variable, and
thisIsAVariable.
Which of these are preferred, and why?
