Clean Code in JavaScript

Naming anti-patterns

Much like the abstraction-building warnings of DRY and YAGNI, naming has its own warnings and anti-patterns. There are many ways to compose a bad name, and nearly all of them can be split into three broad naming anti-patterns: needlessly short names, needlessly exotic names, and needlessly long names.

Names are the initial lenses via which we and others will view the abstractions we build. Therefore, it is vital to know how to avoid creating lenses that only end up obscuring understanding and complicating things for other programmers. Let's begin by exploring needlessly short names and how they can end up drastically limiting our ability to understand what something does.