What's in a name?What's in a name? October 2014 Andrew Gerrand Google Inc. Names matter Readability is the defining quality of good code. Good names are critical to readability. This talk is about naming in Go. 2 Good names A good name is: Consistent (easy to guess), Short (easy to type), Accurate (easy to understand). 3 A rule of thumb The greater the distance between a name's declaration and its uses, the longer
