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by cperciva 5348 days ago
There's a tradeoff in the naming of functions. If you have lots of functions named functionWhoseNameMakesItVeryClearExactlyWhatItDoesToItsParameters(), your code will end up being hard to read simply by virtue of the volume of text people need to read through. I prefer to have gist_of_functionality() with more details easily accessible in an obviously-placed comment.