Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Wed Mar 7 12:21:25 PST 2012
"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 3/7/12, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>> The human brain is highly capable of inferring intention from context
>
> I don't think our brains should be wasted on decyphering
> abbreviations. Too much abbreviations could drive a sane person nuts.
Yes, but OTOH, too much fully-spelled-out stuff makes code much harder to
read (even without going as far as the Java extreme). Good use of common
abbreviations is easier to read than full words. For example, "i18n". Or
"5*2" instead of "five times two". No decyphering is needed at all with good
common abbreviations, and they decrease verbosity which improves
readability.
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