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Probably a bit silly of a problem, but I have this one variable (a part of a library) that I am using all the time (it gives me access to a whole lot of properties and functions). I want it to be as short as possible, and,开发者_开发技巧 preferably, something easy to write. jQuery's "$" would be pretty great, but that doesn't work, neither do any numbers or symbols I tried. I could use something like "s", but I was hoping there'd be something even better (and something that's not just one boring Latin letter).

So what would be SO's best super-short-and-awesome variable name?

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Because I have intellisense in Visual Studio and the C# compiler will not use more memory (produce larger MSIL) for code using a longer variable name, I would call it somethingMeaningful.

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Obviously the best answer is to use a unicode snowman:

☃

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I'd also advise not to do that - it's much better to use a name that explains the purpose of the variable.

However in the spirit of answering the question: You could use underscore: _.

It's a valid variable name in C# (and many other langauges). This isn't a new idea by the way - I have seen some frameworks in C and Python that use underscore as a method that takes a string meaning this string should be localized.

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RBDD. Stands for "Really Bad Design Decision." In fact, make it all lower case, to emphasize the "bad" part.

public static class rbdd
{
  // put bad stuff here
}

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How about ssaa (short for super-short-and-awesome)?