USEFUL PAIRS/TRIPLES

src
dst

beg mid
end

pass
fail

success failure

advance
retreat

raise
lower

louder
softer

header
footer

next
prev

get
set

head
tail

load
save

accept
reject

encode decode

give
take

fetch
store

large small

client server

// Regexp character classes from Perl

lower
upper
punct
alpha
alnum
ascii

outer
inner

dirty
clean

inflate
deflate

import
export

attach
detach

reading
writing

precede
succeed

preceding
following

internal
external

prepare
release

births
deaths

body
soul

alpha
omega

single
double triple couple
family

major minor

current archive

opened closed

USEFUL TERMS

next
prev
show
hide

field
index
table
alias
flush
value
match

// Note the SQL operations here--not a coincidence!

signal
insert
record
report
result
switch
target
filter
select
insert
update
delete
commit
notify
search
sorted create update access

advance
refresh
freshen
promote
replace
jumbled created updated changed visited expires

modified accessed populate
decimate
registry

USEFUL PROPERTIES OF VARIABLES

• same length
• different initial letter is good--it lets you do, e.g.: for $s in ($src) ...

• "A good yardstick for choosing a name is to try to imagine that there is an extraordinary reward for two programmers if they can independently come up with the same program text for the same problem."

  -- Charles Simonyi, "Hungarian Notation" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs600/html/hunganotat.asp