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by srean 23 days ago
I have forever been confused by 'left' and 'right'. It takes me a few seconds of deliberate thinking to get it right.

So in one of my first piece of software that I wrote for real money I had two functions. One called create_scene_left(), the other called create_scene_rght().

I was very pleased with myself for sneaking in creating_a_scene, but the left and right versions did the opposite of what their names indicated. Users of the software had no problems, but I am sure it would confuse any maintainer.

It even took me an year to even realize that the names were wrong.