Re: Re: ctype function (re?)naming
| From: | (Chris Adams) | Date: | Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:22:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: ctype function (re?)naming | ||
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On 7 Mar 2001 09:16:15 -0800, Zak Greant <zak@nucleus.com> wrote:
>> It's always better to write a few extra characters if it makes your code
>> much more readable.
>
>Agreed. We could try to save a bit of space doing /error/err/ or
>/string/str/ or /number/num/. Where do we draw the line on
>length/convenience vs. readability?
I'd say it shouldn't go any further than extremely common industry-wide
abbreviations - e.g. err, www, sql, db.
Programming speed is rarely limited by text entry speed and while there are
many possible abbreviations, there's only one correct full version - the typing
saved will be wasted several times over when you have to open the manual to
find out whether RecordNumber was abbreviated to RecordNum, RecordNo,
RecNumber, RecNum, RecNo, RNum, RNo or, in pathological cases, RN.