Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

Jos van Uden user at domain.invalid
Wed Mar 7 15:30:35 PST 2012


On 6-3-2012 19:35, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:13:47PM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:

>> (Also, seriously, I think you're over-dramatizing the Java variable
>> naming thing; I rarely see names that are as bad as you claim...)
> [...]
>
> OK, I exaggerated a little. :-) But my point stands, that I find many of
> these names just way too long for my tastes. Like BufferedOutputStream.
> Or ByteArrayOutputStream.  Ugh. I mean, we're writing programs here, not
> essays. Why spell things out in full if we don't need to?

long time = System.currentTimeMillis();

I use a macro for that one :-)

Jos




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