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If you find yourself commenting your variable names then you probably didn't spend enough time thinking of a good name for it.

Remember too that there's a difference between parameter names and variable names. In a dynamic language, a parameter name should probably suggest its type, variables should suggest their role. Kent Beck is really good on this in 'Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns'.