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Reminds me when I was working with a guy and he named a database table
recieved. I had adapted my code to that, and then one day without warning he renamed it toreceived- and it took us an hour to figure out why everything broke.had a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow "rec1st" and the last record "reclst", unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical.
i spent a day debugging that after he quit.
Maybe he wasn’t really unaware that only his font choice differentiated the names.