Business Value
Although largely hidden from the view of most business users, well-chosen identifiers make it significantly easier for subsequent generations of analysts and developers to understand what the system is doing and how to fix or extend the source code for new business needs.
For example, although the following:
a = b * c;is syntactically correct, it is entirely opaque as to intent or meaning. Contrast this with:
weekly_pay = hours_worked * pay_rate;which implies the intent and meaning of the source code, at least to those familiar with the underlying context of the application.
Read more about this topic: Naming Convention (programming)
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““What business is it of yours, then?”
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—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)