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Concur on both. It sounds like we're in the same tiny statistical bucket.

By the way, there is a variant of "googleable" that I find to be a valuable property for names in a codebase, and that is "greppable". I try to make sure that the name of any important concept is a unique string in the program, so a simple grep will yield all the places it occurs. I'll even rename things that aren't as important, if their name includes this string, to preserve said uniqueness. (And no, the 'find usage' feature of IDEs doesn't come close to satisfying this need, since a concept can appear in many ways that don't yield to code analysis, such as comments.)



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