• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It could be that this is a habit left over from pascal, where result is a reserved word, and is automatically made the return value of the function.

    If it is in the context of a short function, I don’t see that it’s all that bad.

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      1 year ago

      Yup, I also do that. If I just need a variable to put in what will be returned, I call it result. What it means should be clear from the function name. Repeating that feels redundant.