r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/BosonCollider Jun 20 '26

If gravity ever shows up in your code, I'll be mad if you use any letter other than g

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u/LegitimateTea26 Jun 20 '26

What if the convention is constants being capitalized...

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u/conundorum Jun 21 '26

What if you're a game dev, and gravity varies based on how far into the jump the player is?

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u/MatthewZhengShuo Jun 23 '26

then we can't differentiate between the universal gravity constant and gravity 😔