>> Seems to be cathing a wave or something in the community.
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>On the other side there's currently a movement to make variable names short and meaningless. The reasoning behind this is that the context in the method and the method name is explanation enough to make it obvious what the variable is used for. If the context isn't clear the method is too long and needs refactoring, anyway. I came across an article explaining this more in detail a couple of months ago, but I can't find the link right now...

In the end, it will be the best of both worlds. We'll get to fix code written using short and meaningless variable names in a method which was too long and the context was lurking somewhere in there but won't be easy to find...