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authorEvan Winslow <evan.b.winslow@gmail.com>2011-11-07 00:40:23 +0000
committerEvan Winslow <evan.b.winslow@gmail.com>2011-11-07 00:40:23 +0000
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Fixes #3397: Adds 'positive' variable name standard to best practices file.
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diff --git a/documentation/coding_standards/best_practices.txt b/documentation/coding_standards/best_practices.txt
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+++ b/documentation/coding_standards/best_practices.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ work for developers, which means happier, more productive developers.
* Use self-documenting variable names. $group_guids is better than $array.
+* Use "positive" variable names. Prefer `$enable = true` to `$disable = false`.
+
* Functions returning an array should return an empty array instead of FALSE
on no results.