MOVED TO @lies programmers believe about names...
(that they don't change)
people have 3 names
people have 2 names
people have 1 name
names consist of ascii characters
names are read left-to-right
names will fit in N bytes
people have 2 names
people have 1 name
names consist of ascii characters
names are read left-to-right
names will fit in N bytes
Izzy Swart@haskal names are printable
avocado goblin@haskal names can only be spelt one way
names will be spelt only one way
names will be spelt only one way
Lunch (--)@haskal peoples names are always spelled the same way
peoples names are in [a-zA-Z\- ]+
peoples names are in [a-zA-Z\- ]+
@haskal also the number of times I have to fill out forms like this to make a credit card transaction work:
First: $firstname $fullnamesuffix
Last: $lastname
and I'm surprised that I haven't had to make my middle initial just "X" more often than I have
@haskal names begin with a capital letter >:[
The Great Taste of Ghosts@haskal There was a great article about this ~10 years ago: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/