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by satyap 4727 days ago
"Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1" is a great name for a part that a human somewhere needs to read and understand what it's for. If that were a piece of Computer code it might be better off being named:

Silicon::Chip::Transistor::NPN::Photo::IR

and then 2-pin and T-1 might be properties on it.

The key word here might be "namespacing". Or it might be something else.