Potential Benefits
Some of the potential benefits that can be obtained by adopting a naming convention include the following:
- to provide additional information (i.e., metadata) about the use to which an identifier is put;
- to help formalize expectations and promote consistency within a development team;
- to enable the use of automated refactoring or search and replace tools with minimal potential for error;
- to enhance clarity in cases of potential ambiguity;
- to enhance the aesthetic and professional appearance of work product (for example, by disallowing overly long names, comical or "cute" names, or abbreviations);
- to help avoid "naming collisions" that might occur when the work product of different organizations is combined (see also: namespaces);
- to provide meaningful data to be used in project handovers which require submission of program source code and all relevant documentation and
- to provide better understanding in case of code reuse after a long interval of time.
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