Occasionally using emojis in identifiers when it is helpful

[CharlieJV]

Well I didn't mean to strike a nerve. I simply don't see how pictorials can in any way be helpful in source code. You can already comment code and surround/highlight those important areas of code that need to stand out. I do it heavily in my code all the time.

You've got to put yourself in the mindset of a person who:

• suffers from sensory overload 24x7
  
• everything, absolutely everything and every detail, is interesting ( a shiny object grabbing attention)
  
• hyperlinked thought processing, all of the time: everything is connected to everything else, instantly; so always a web of intertwingled (intertwined and interconnected) things
  

Comments are necessary at times, but every character in the program and every word is grabbing attention, grabbing focus.

It is like many people talking to me at the same time, and I desperately need all of them to shut up because I'm trying to process one particular thing, and trying to ignore all of the things connected to that one thing that instantly pop up in my head and have nothing to do with the program.

So short and concise things one-character things that help me find what I'm looking for and/or identify what I'm looking at, these are extremely helpful.

Way more helpful than comments.  Because it takes too long to read, because every word is connected to an overwhelming web of intertwingled things that word makes me think of.

Graphic symbols most often don't have any meaning to me (I pretty much draw a blank, which is kind of a nice break).  But if I know that symbol is associated with, say, a label for a line identifier, then I've got nothing else in my head and it becomes the anchor point for the GOSUB before it and the IF before that.

I don't know how to explain it any better.  I'm the one with the disability, not the one who has studied cognitive psychology.