Question

In my java code I did something like that:

int sleep = 0;
sleep(sleep);
sleep++;

It was pointed out by my bos that it is not good. That it won’t work in php correctly.

Is there any issue / danger using above code in java?

Answer 1

There’s no danger, since methods will never be referred to without the parentheses for arguments, so the names will never clash.

However it’s generally clearer and more intuitive if method names are verbs and variable names are nouns, for example:

int sleepMillis = 0;
sleep(sleepMillis);
sleepMillis++;