From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2007-02-22T19:15:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Trade-off between variable name descriptiveness and readability

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 14:32 +0900, Daniel Finnie wrote:
> As a mentor of the new adopt-a-newbie system, which I think is going 
> excellently, I was reviewing a 99-bottles-of-beer method.  We went over 
> what he had, what I thought could be better and I showed an example of 
> exactly how I would do it, which was this:
> 
>  > def sing_song(start)
>  > 	start.downto(1) do |numBottles|
>  > 		puts "#{numBottles.bottles} of beer on the wall, 
> #{numBottles.bottles} of beer!"
>  > 		puts "Take one down, pass it around, #{(numBottles-1).bottles} of 
> beer on the wall"
>  > 		puts
>  > 	end
>  > end

It should be "num_bottles" if nothing else! ;)


Cheers,
Daniel