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Because I can already look at a sock and see it's a sock.

If you're keen on this style, perhaps you should pack all the socks, underwear and other objects in your home into identical boxes and put labels like "~" and "z" on them.

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Funnily enough, I don’t need a label for the drawer I keep my socks in. None of my drawers have labels. See what I’m saying here?

I do. You're saying you see your code as a personal posession, whose structure you know and understand. You're saying it doesn't matter how easy your code is for somebody else to get their head round because, like your sock drawer, you don't imagine other people will go rummaging around in it.

It's not an attitude I approve of in colleagues, for obvious reasons. Fortunately it's a long time since I've had to work with anyone that thinks that way. They don't survive in workplaces like mine.

Which colleagues are you talking about in this context? In any event I’ve worked for over twenty years in companies with thousands of employees and I can’t remember a single time that the name of a source file made any practical difference in my day. I think the naysayers are having their own conversations distinct from actual reality of what’s happening here. “I wouldn’t do this” is a perfectly reasonable reaction but not at all useful in a public discussion.

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