ValiantDust

Relevant xkcd

But are you gonna return something for this method??? You said you’d return an integer, yet there is no return statement!

I’m afraid I’m not following. The solution to what?

Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment.

Not only more readable than A and B but I would argue it’s also easier to remember who did what a few sentences or paragraphs earlier since Alice and Bob invoke slightly less generic mental images than A and B. For example one is a woman and the other one is a man, maybe even some person or character you know.

And now that I’m thinking about it, the different gender also makes it easier to keep track of who does what because different pronouns are used (at least in English and many other languages).

Weird sunglasses are also important.

That would make sense. Thanks for coming up with an explanation. I did wonder when I thought about this earlier.

There used to be this thing going around on pre-smartphone phones (via Bluetooth, I assume) that showed a pocket watch closing and when it was fully closed, the phone shut down. We all thought it was hilarious to send it to as many people as possible and watch them panic. I don’t even know what format it was to look like a normal gif or video and do that. I certainly didn’t even care back then.

What I took away from this is that we urgently need to find the person in question and let them name everything. Alternatively the person who came up with the names in the post.