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The Six Stages of Code Grief (suppo.fi)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

single-letter var names

in kanji?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Such hits as 'a', 'b', 'x', and 'y'. I know the version of the language we were using didn't have native utf-8 support, so I don't think kanji varnames were possible. It even made comments in kana and kanji really wonky (I think the comments were shiftjis)