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"can you rename this method's internal variable name"?
To be fair, it's has its advantage, I can just rename the variable (who cares? not me anyway) and presto it looks like an animated code review all problems solved! while doing nothing strenuous or significant! 
In other news, while typing this, I got struck by a sneezing fit. When I raise my eyes to the screen again, Edge was offering to clean my browser history! Is that what my sneezing was about hey?! 
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I can sympathize with both sides. I had a coworker with a PhD in math who ended up doing programming for a living. Bright fellow and a nice guy but his variables were x1, y2, w1, t4, m3. Reading his code was murder. 
Mircea
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Good variable names!
Too bad Greek letters are not so easily available! 
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int η_μεταβλητή_μου = 12;
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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yes, yes, unicode is fine to render but...
how do you type them (without hassle)?!
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Google to the rescue, in this case Google Translate.
Alternative: buy a Greek keyboard.
Even cheaper alternative: install a Greek language package and use a regular keyboard.
No hassle approach: use C:\Windows\system32\charmap.exe
...
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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I could easily see the advantages of non-Latin variable names when the problem to be solved belongs to a domain where certain symbols are more or less universally recognized to represent well defined properties. There are lots of those in physics, statistics, math - and I would expect something similar in biology, chemistry, medicine and many other professional areas.
Google Translate is not a solution for declaration and use of, say, the variable Δt. Searching up the delta in charmap.exe every time you need to refer to the variable, I cannot with my best will consider a "no hassle" approach
My solution is to maintain a UTF-8 text file where I have entered all the non-Latin symbols I use for the task, keeping it open in a window from which I can mark, copy, paste. If the destination is a Word document, I open the file in Notepad++. (I do not use another Word document, as I have set up Word-to-Word copy to use the source formatting.)
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Visual Studio is doing a good job here: once you have declared your class members, they will show up in
Intellisense no matter what language they are in...
Luc Pattyn [My Articles]
The Windows 11 "taskbar" is disgusting. It should be at the left of the screen, with real icons, with text, progress, etc. They downgraded my developer PC to a bloody iPhone.
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x1 and y1 can make a lot of sense sometimes, if you're doing 2d coordinates for example.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Edge is out there.................. waiting.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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OMG!
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Super Lloyd wrote: "can you rename this method's internal variable name"?
Yes. Let me rename it to managersux.
One does not change working code for variable names. I'd have any manager fired for that 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I once rejected an open source library that had received very good critics. We knew that we had to make significant extensions / modifications of the code. All names of variables and internal functions, as well as all code comments, were in French. None of us knew any French.
This is almost as bad as ALGOL68: The formal language specification defined tokens at abstract level; it didn't mandate IF and WHILE and FOR; you could define a language implementation that was Greek even to Greek programmers ... I don't know if that was ever done, but I did once see an ALGOL68 program using German language keywords. I know that it would be trivial to make a converter for replacing the German keywords with English ones, but if the programmer uses German keywords, I take for granted that all names and comments are in German, too. That French library at least had English keywords - but that was not sufficient for our use of it.
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A long time ago I did a consulting job that was essentially a code review. Part of the code base had been out-sourced to a Ukrainian company. Merriment ensued...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Depends on the size of the module and the name and scope of the variable. In other words, does renaming the variable add to the maintainability of the code?
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Sometimes VS and .NET is a PITA. But you know that.
I needed to have an Azure web app (Framework 4.7.2) log to app insights, so I installed the various AI packages and MS extensions dependency injection abstractions package. I ensure the abstractions DLL shows up in my references, I have a 'using' reference to it, and all that looks good. But VS is telling me the type and namespace can't be found for the ServiceCollection object, although it sees the bloody IServiceCollection interface. The same packages and the same code works in a console app on the same framework version.
So the big question is, if I retire now, can I live off a reduced SS check and my current 401K and savings for the next 20+ years?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Did you include the assembly as a reference?
TNCaver wrote: if I retire now, can I live off a reduced SS check and my current 401K and savings for the next 20+ years?
No 401k in Europe. Ask an American.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It shows up in my references, so I assume it's there. I tried to find it in the Reference Manager to add it manually, just in case, but it isn't there. Not sure that's a problem since it isn't in the Manager in the console app, either, and it works fine.
I could retire now if I could talk my wife into moving to Arequipa, Peru. And if we could speak Spanish.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: I could retire now if I could talk my wife into moving to Arequipa, Peru. And if we could speak Spanish.
Then why are we talking references my man?
You don't need Spanish in Peru (though it helps).
TNCaver wrote: It shows up in my references, so I assume it's there. I tried to find it in the Reference Manager to add it manually, just in case, but it isn't there. Not sure that's a problem since it isn't in the Manager in the console app, either, and it works fine.
It was an assumption, sorry.
TNCaver wrote: I ensure the abstractions DLL shows up in my references, I have a 'using' reference to it, and all that looks good. But VS is telling me the type and namespace can't be found for the ServiceCollection object, although it sees the bloody IServiceCollection interface.
You need a reference to that DLL, as far as I can guess now.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You need a reference to that DLL, as far as I can guess now.
Yep, or the right DLL, which is another rabbit hole I can't find the bottom of. 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: I could retire now if I could talk my wife into moving to Arequipa, Peru. And if we could speak Spanish.
Even though I can't, I would given the option. Go live near the coast and be happy?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I enjoy the ocean, but I prefer mountains, or at least very tall hills and ridges, buried in trees, flowing with rivers to kayak and caves to explore. That's my retirement plans.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Thanks, that got me closer. I removed what I had and installed the Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection package, which also installed the Abstractions package, using the same version as the console app. It now recognizes some version of the ServiceCollection, but not the version with an IServiceCollection that contains the definition for AddLogging and AddApplicationInsightsTelemetryWorkerService. And yet both the web app and console apps are using the same version of those packages, as far as I can tell, and those methods are defined in the console's version. 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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It will be the right ServiceCollection; it just looks like you're missing some other references.
AddLogging is an extension method defined in the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging NuGet package.AddApplicationInsightsTelemetryWorkerService is an extension method defined in the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WorkerService NuGet package.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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