>Nope. These are unforgetable and may be obvious to you. But they are not obvious to the programmer that sees the code for the first time.
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>Vlad
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>>A good exception is the abbreviations which are unforgettable; look at these:
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>>indi_ana - indicator of analytical record
>>vrana - vrsta analitike (type of analytics - but "vrana" means "crow")
>>sumpor - suma poreza (sum of the tax - but "sumpor" is "sulphur")

Ooops - I meant they're good as inhouse exceptions; all the programmers involved know the story and that's what makes it OK. They are well commented, also; but now I see it could have sounded as if I meant as recommendation for a general rule, which it surely was not.

Anyway, I can afford one or two things like this from time to time; being a three man shop it never costs us more than ten minutes of confusion once a year. The standards I've set are not as strict regarding naming conventions for variables; field names, source formatting and commenting are a different story, so having a little fun is the best I can do for them (aside from paying them better, which is beyond my programming skills).

It really was a long week.