I agree higher level names are far more important.<p>But I think clarity at the local level is nice, too.  Let&#x27;s say your function takes a name, sanitizes it, and then does some other processing, perhaps storing it.  I think this makes the code more immediately clear than 2 character names:<p><pre><code>    function storeName(name) {
        safeName = sanitize(name);
        &#x2F;&#x2F; do other stuff that works with safeName
        &#x2F;&#x2F;...
    }</code></pre>