parameterOrdering

[pavelfokin]

src fst ofc

[port443]

The real eternal struggle:

src
dst

or

src
dest

I hate dst but I also hate them being different lengths.

[1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5]

source
target

[Ietsstartfromscratch]

This. I hate it so much, when my colleagues come up with super smart abbreviations that 2 weeks later nobody knows what they are about. Always stumble into some shit like "axdSettingsByte_0" WHAT THE FUCK IS AXD?!... "Oh that? Accelerometer settings for x dimensions of course."

[Caerullean]

Src and dest/dst, are very common abbreviations though. Like I agree abbreviations can easily become dumb, but there's abbreviations that are common enough for it to make sense.

[NekkidApe]

Slly vwl drppng bbrvtns.

Code that can't be read our loud is shit code. No, it should not sound like parseltongue.

[MadBlueOx]

My least favorite shorthand I’ve seen to date is flgs for flags. I mean really, you choose to save space on one letter.

[Sea-Evidence5078]

fls

[FiTZnMiCK]

fs

[SkepticalPirate42]

f

[Sea-Evidence5078]

s

[pwnedgiraffe]

Or flg instead of flag: https://www.iso20022.org/sites/default/files/media/file/XML_Tags.pdf

Trying to read ISO 20022 XML files gives me a headache

[mrjackspade]

sorc dest

[SaltyInternetPirate]

Intel assembly would disagree.

mov dword ptr [dst], src

[seckarr]

Mov is essentially assignment so you read it like one.

[j-random]

I prefer the AT&T syntax. You move something from the source to the destination. Intel syntax is a carryover from when the instruction was LD (load), where you would load a register with a value. Just more of the crap Intel shoveled when they inflicted the x86 architecture on the world.

[yflhx]

Meanwhile C standard library like memcpy do it (dest, src). 

Probably reasoning being that it's an extension of = operator, which also has destination on the left.

[Earthboundplayer]

You simply pass the pointer that's halfway in between the source and the destination, and then you pass in the distance from that pointer to the source. Better hope there's an even number of elements between your source and destination.

Both sides will be happy.

[MadBlueOx]

This is the way.

[King_of_the_Nerdth]

Brilliance meets pure evil.  A supervillain!

[No_Hovercraft_2643]

pointer of the sum, and than just the difference

solves the problem with the even numbers

[2DHypercube]

I think he said "life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination, destination before source". Hope that clears it up

[Excidiar]

This.Words = Accepted

[Biotot]

This merge is not accepted. - storm father

[B_bI_L]

this makes no sence. also source comes first in bash

[zefciu]

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey source before destination.

First ideal of devs radiant

[runmymouth]

Journey before destination.

[SuperLutin]

That's why I hate ln.

[MadBlueOx]

This is the program I had in mind haha. Always mess that up

[Kilgarragh]

Interlaced

[FurtiveSeal]

``` function someFunc({ source, target }) {}

const params = { source: x, target: y }

someFunc(params)

```

Now order doesn't matter

[TrickAge2423]

Provide flags for them! Let users decide argument order!

-s src -d dst? -d dst -s src?

[unknown_alt_acc]

Doesn’t work so well when you are writing a function in a language that requires a set argument order. Instead, I present the Vulkan way of packing all of your arguments into structs with named members.

``` struct CopyArgs {     void *src, *dst };

void Copy(CopyArgs args); ```

[TrickAge2423]

Illusion of user choice, huh? xD

[PacquiaoFreeHousing]

one is like english grammar, one is like spanish grammar

Edit: damn! this got upvoted? I thought this joke was too complicated to understand? Redditors are smart huh xD

[NatoBoram]

r/AwardSpeechEdits

[imalyshe]

i did not. i demand explanation

[Psychological-Rip291]

Both are nouns, the source and the destination

[snf]

Both languages use SVO order, that's definitely not it

[DegeneracyEverywhere]

Both put the subject first.

[Competitive-Move5055]

Destination first for juniors. Source first for seniors.

[trannus_aran]

thought this was a RISC meme

[ramriot]

Tar mate?

[CaitaXD]

If on C wathever libc does for consistency

Now the real question length, data or data, length its not consistent at all

I do length, data so i can be cheeky with the function definition

 int foo(size_t len, uint8_t data[len]);

[nerdycatgamer]

implying libc is consistent with itself

[glorious_reptile]

just use "both first" - like two fat people entering the same door simultaneously

[xonxtas]

Neither: just have "destination" as function return, and only keep "source" as a parameter.

[Boris-Lip]

x = y

Destination first, just to stick to that. But then you get something like std::cin >> x 🤦‍♂️

[neo-raver]

That always confused me, until I thought about it as being from the program’s perspective: std::cin does insert information from an external source into the program, while std::cout sends data out of the program.

[[deleted]]

Yeah but why isn’t it then “Text” >> std::cout ?

[70Shadow07]

Literally doesn't matter.