From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 20:24:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B2045A6.BD89EA0A@home.com> From: Larry Elmore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <9ekth1$49o$1@nnrp1.phx.gblx.net> <9c5c8b5f.0106060240.7c9c08c0@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 03:24:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.10.25.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 991970686 65.10.25.74 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:24:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:24:46 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10472 comp.lang.ada:8380 comp.lang.awk:2878 comp.lang.clarion:21393 comp.lang.java.programmer:74603 comp.lang.pl1:884 comp.lang.vrml:3622 Date: 2001-06-08T03:24:46+00:00 List-Id: John wrote: > > If there were standard abbreviations or popular abbreviations or > common ones, I think people would understand those. One way to get a > happy medium is to use > Descriptive class names or somewhere in the code where you can figure > out what > the object is. Documentation strings are a nice feature of Lisp (_if_ they are used). Larry