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		lyndonh on Dec 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec It's all very well when it's a simple variable but quite often I have come up against variables that would take a whole paragraph of text to explain their purpose and don't have a concise or obvious name.

JasonFruit on Dec 13, 2013 | [–]

I find quite often a little hard to believe. Occasionally, maybe; and why not provide a paragraph of text? Sometimes it's the right thing to do.

bane on Dec 13, 2013 | [–]

Then write a paragraph of text. An hour writing today will save weeks of reverse engineering later.

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