Vulgare variable names

[LowestOne]

I've seen a bunch of inappropriate variable names online. I was told by a teacher to never be cute like that, and I follow his advise. I was able to find something I'm not quite sure about now :)

I have two words, which I've named:

string fWord;
string sWord;

Think fWord is going to be a problem? Is the industry so politically correct?

[Luc Lieber]

The only thing that you have to consider when choosing a variable name is that it sufficiently self-documents itself. Follow that guideline and you:

A) Probably won't ever need to use "vulgar" terms unless you're writing a sexual reproduction library.

B) Probably won't get confused with your variable names so often.

C) Won't incur the wrath of others that depend on your code.

[darkestfright]

Teachers live in the mystical land of Academia, and the things they tell you pretty much never apply to the real world.

For example, I was reading the Doom source code and noticed a variable called "fuck". It's completely undocumented, and I have no idea what it does.

I've also seen a few gems in my time, like:

Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up;  //ha ha 

//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42
//

// Magic. Do not touch.

#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers

[ResidentBiscuit]

Ha the dear maintainer one was awesome.