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Anyone else finds naming things in programming quite difficult?

I often find it quite difficult to come up with good names for variables, methods, etc. For instance, what should a method be called that get the user based on id: GetUser(string id), GetUserById(string id), GetUserFromId(string id) etc. ? Another example could be a variable that stores a collection of users. Should it be called users, userList, listOfUsers, userCollection etc? Sometimes I find myself spending quite some time finding the "best" name.

13th Dec 2017, 1:26 PM
Michael Vorm Jensen
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It is tricky, yes. Do not reinvent the wheel. Use your own naming convention and use it every time. Then you only have to think once and use it. So choosse 1 of your 4 option, and stick with it. If it is a collection I prefer to use List or Collection in the name. Variables always contain a noun Methods always contain a verb and most of the time also a noun
13th Dec 2017, 9:18 PM
sneeze
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