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		shkkmo 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API Fun names are OK, but only if they don't introduce ambiguity. In this case the change wasn't so much anti-fun as anti-ambiguity.

otras 8 months ago [–]

That's a great call-out, and it (along with the change itself) underlines the importance of not letting fun get in the way of actual engineering improvements. Defunnification as a side effect, if you will.

serial_dev 8 months ago | [–]

That variable name is still confusing.

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