Problems

• Declarative

• Design for Change

• Coupling to accidental implementation

Solutions

1. Rename your variable according to the role.

Sample Code

Wrong

Right

Detection

This is a semantic rule. We can instruct our linters to warn us from using names related to existing classes, types o reserved words since they are too implementative.

Tags

• Declarative

Conclusion

The first name we can across is related to an accidental point of view. It takes time to build a theory on the models we are building using our MAPPERS. Once we get there, we must rename our variables-

Relations

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Credits

Photo by Sangga Rima Roman Selia on Unsplash

This idea came from this tweet

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Types are essentially assertions about a program. And I think it’s valuable to have things be as absolutely simple as possible, including not even saying what the types are.

Dan Ingalls

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This article is part of the CodeSmell Series.