[aksx]

I am all for the Go idiom that variable name length should be directly proportional to it's scope, the code samples in the post have take it a bit too far and make the code harder to read.

it would be so much more readable if the struct had more descriptive names

    type Cuckoo struct {
       buckets           []bucket
       numBuckets        uint
       entriesPerBucket  uint 
       fingerprintLength uint
       capacity          uint
    }

[Insanity]

It's a good point - and I wasn't entirely sure what to go with.

In the end, I went with the shorter variable names as they are used in the paper I've linked: https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/FS/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf

In a production version of this, longer variable names would be a good thing. :)