>>It's not the worse way to name variables. I supported an application where original developer used variavbles name like m.f*ckyou and user would call and complain that program is cursing her. It turned out that she got message "Variable 'f*ckyou' not found".
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>My rule #1. Never, ever, use "cute" error messages, variables, or anything else with the intention of removing them in production code. It amazes me. It's like daring the ill-tempered QC gods.


I heard a story about this in my first programming class (mid 70's COBOL). Seems that after five or more years of operating properly, this system started generating an error message "CHYNYOYO." The programmer was long gone and the documentation had been moved "somewhere." The documentation was eventually found and after several hours of reading miles of code they found

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