> we know it's a 3-tuple because we can see the right-hand-side of the equals sign

In the context I’m referring to, the variable may have been set 80 lines earlier, 7 years ago, when I was worse at coding.

I mean, good habits tend to compound each other.

	▲	scoofy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think this response misses the point. Yes, if I’d not been worse at coding a decade ago, I wouldn’t be revisiting the code in the first place. The point of the redundancy of very clear, descriptive variable names, is that the code is going to suck tomorrow, even if it is good today. Future me is always going to look down on today me. The difference is that I planing for that, so maybe I can help out future me by being verbose, even if it isn’t necessary for much of the code that ends up being fine. When I have a nasty bug, I don’t want to waste a day on something that could have been clear if I’d just explained it properly.