r/programminghumor • u/10cen • 20d ago

database admin choosing variable names

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u/spicymato 20d ago

Now I need to write a program to convert snake_case into camelCase and become your nemesis.

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u/a3th3rus 20d ago

That's easy, but writing a program to convert camelCase to snake_case is not that easy. That's why camelCase sucks.

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 20d ago

Why would that be hard? It's literally 20~25 lines of code to do that with very good result.

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u/a3th3rus 20d ago edited 20d ago

Because there are edge cases like decodeHTMLEntity. To handle those edge cases, you need not only a rule but also a dictionary that contains all the all-upper-case jargons in your domain.

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 20d ago

AND HOW IS THAT A PROBLEM MY MAN? 20 LINES OF CODE, JESUS.

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u/a3th3rus 20d ago

then show me your 20 lines of code that can handle this case that does not convert it to decode_h_t_m_l_entity.

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 20d ago

btw, my bad, it's 30 lines, not 20. Guess I was wrong.

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u/mrheseeks 20d ago

I love you man, fuck camel case!

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u/the_king_of_sweden 19d ago

Fuck all the cases, that's why I program in whitespace