I'll amend that - I could see abbreviating "list" to "l" - just not to
"ls" because of the collision with ls.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Kris
Nuttycombe<
kris.nuttycombe@...> wrote:
> head/list
>
> Any time variable names are abbreviated I have to mentally do the
> expansion anyway. Why force the extra effort when you're talking about
> two characters?
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bill Venners<
bill@...> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> How do people feel about hd for variables that will hold the head of a
>> list, ls for list, etc. What about pred for predicate? Seems if there
>> are some very commonly used variable names like that it could make
>> things more readable, but head and list are just two characters longer
>> each, so I question whether that wouldn't make code more readable in
>> general.
>>
>> Dave Astels once said, whatever you would answer when asked what a
>> particular variable is, that is what you should name that variable.
>> Sometimes that approach can result in long variables that can obscure
>> the logic, and I think sometimes an abbreviation makes things more
>> readable. But I seem to lean more towards longer more descriptive
>> variable names than others in my sphere of peers. When would you
>> shorten or abbreviate a variable name, and how short would you go?
>>
>> Bill
>> ----
>> Bill Venners
>> Artima, Inc.
>>
http://www.artima.com>>
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