Post by @yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place

2026-04-29 22:06 UTC

To be honest, I vastly prefer this to the name that something like POSIX would give, which would be something cryptic like &quot;afRepReIfDFDENE2()&quot; with an input type of void* and output type of int. At least with really long names you can easily figure out what it does.

Replies (6)

@alejandro@indieweb.social 2026-04-29 22:19

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place seems like naming something so that copilot could fill the implementation

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@wildrikku@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-29 22:52

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place input type of void*, named just "in".

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@lichendust@sunny.garden 2026-04-29 23:47

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place I love this the most important lesson I learned from watching JBlow and Casey Muratori's streams was 'optimise for reading/comprehension, not for writing' and while this is on the extreme end... it's not wrong the excuse I always see is "line length", but monitors are wide and high-res now, max line length complaints are a literally a problem from twenty years ago

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@anselmschueler@ieji.de 2026-04-30 01:04

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place it would be called like fmv_a

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@Drwave@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 03:20

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place You would have loved PARIS on the Connection Machine, then… We had long names. Very long. Longer than Mathematica. I actually expect Wolfram was inspired by the PARIS instructions…

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@RobeeShepherd@mastodon.art 2026-04-30 08:40

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place I would end up trolling if I did this 😬 returns_one_but_sometimes_two_maybe_three_or_four() for a random number generator

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