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    Quote Originally Posted by maxorator View Post
    Well yeah, I also use normal variable names (sometimes in Estonian), but I attach dw, w, etc onto them.
    I'm partial to hindi, slovenian, and german myself. I wonder if this is a common practice to use variable names in other languages.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    I'm partial to hindi, slovenian, and german myself. I wonder if this is a common practice to use variable names in other languages.
    If you want people that are not familiar with your language to be able to understand your names, then that's probably not a good idea. For your personal programming, who cares?

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    If you want people that are not familiar with your language to be able to understand your names, then that's probably not a good idea. For your personal programming, who cares?

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