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[Tahin]

There's nothing wrong with using x and y as long they're tied to an object and not global variables, so you know what they're describing.
The true crime is then having X as a distinctly separate variable from x.

[Muz]

A friend of mine wrote a chat client with those

Socket = Sock
TCP Socket = sock
Test TCP socket = SOCK (the one that didn't work)
Accepted socket = sOCk
Some dummy socket = soCk
Connected socket = sokc

..and so on.

Then.. when I try something simple like send(sock, reply, MSGSIZE)
Oh carp.

[Yanlin]

Drarven coding kills.

[Ultimuh]

Drarven coding kills.

Dwarves don't code, they be engravein'.

[SolarShado]

My personal Variable naming rules re: capitalization:

1: all variables are lowercase. if multiword, use "cammel-case": "myCoolVar"

2: EXCEPT for final static class variables (more or less global constants) are ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES

Drarven coding kills.

Dwarves don't code, they be engravein'.

How do they compile? With a cave-in?

[Yanlin]

My personal Variable naming rules re: capitalization:

1: all variables are lowercase. if multiword, use "cammel-case": "myCoolVar"

2: EXCEPT for final static class variables (more or less global constants) are ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES

Drarven coding kills.

Dwarves don't code, they be engravein'.

How do they compile? With a cave-in?

No. Magma.

[Muz]

Magma + water = memory

[Yanlin]

Don't forget to pull that lever again or you'll have a buffer overflow.

[Virex]

If you want to have fun, define both main() and Main() and call Main() from main(). Then try to get someone else to understand what you're doing

Plus. X and Y (or x and y, but I always capitalise my variables to avoid accedentaly using an illegal name for a variable) are usualy fine if you're using them to refere to a location on a map or the screen. But if there could be confusion as to what map you're getting the X and Y from, you'd better rename them (or use different coordinate systems for each map )

[Muz]

Hmm.. capitalizing variables to accidentally avoid illegal names is actually a good trick. I didn't think of that

[Mr Tk]

I've run Java programs in 3GB heaps for fun.

That reminds of an exception in C#. The OutOfMemory Exception.

[eerr]

so java does have more than 68 megabytes?

Thats why Jagex says they're limited to 68mb for funorb...
backwards compatability.

[SolarShado]

Speaking of illegal names, I was working on an RPG-ish game several years back. When I got to the point of writing the class for an in-game character (PC/NPC), I naturally named the class "Character"... If you're a Java programmer and don't know where this is going, go try it right quick.

Spoiler: Otherwise (click to show/hide)

I forget exactly what happened, but the name was already taken, by java.lang.Character. For those who aren't familiar with Java, the java.lang package is automaticly imported, and contains a lot of basic stuff, including a class for each native data type, like "Integer" for ints and "Character" for chars.

[cowofdoom78963]

Ill be sure to remember this, as I have just started using C.

[Muz]

The most important rule in coding is that it's going to take a hell lot longer than you expect. Same rule also applies to electronic engineering.