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From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:41 +0100
Date: 2012-02-15T18:30:41+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f3bebc1$0$7609$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v9p0ugprule2fv@douda-yannick>

On 15.02.12 13:55, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

>>> Motto: Don't use characters as symbols.
> Even symbols may be ambiguous. No one should be afraid of that.

If no one is afraid of ambiguity of identifiers, it will cause
errors sooner or later. Stupid errors. Pardon my French.

The readability of a program's source text obviously should not
depend on the choice of font if that font alone makes ambiguity
disappear. This kind of witchcraft is good for producing
nightmares for the programmers who need to fix the program.

> Unicode already provides some data on the different meanings of similar
> glyphs, and it does not suggest I vs l (or i vs j with some fonts) is the same
> as ∅ vs ø vs ⌀.

What do the Unicode data not not suggest? There is not three nots in
the preceding sentence.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 21:10 Convention for naming of packages Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-09 21:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-10 15:07   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10 17:04     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-10 17:09     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-10 17:41       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  9:33       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11  0:56     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-13  3:09       ` BrianG
2012-02-10 17:21   ` Pascal Obry
2012-02-10 18:03     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11  1:06     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-11  9:22       ` Simon Wright
2012-02-11 10:17         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11 19:24           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-11 20:06             ` Simon Wright
2012-02-12  9:18               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-12 10:22                 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-13  9:21         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-12 19:53       ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-12 21:19         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  8:53           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13  9:12             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 11:03               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 11:57                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 12:30                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:07                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 14:01                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 14:59                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 15:05                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 15:23                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14 21:02                               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:01                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 13:04                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 13:19                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 14:20                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 15:11                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 16:24                             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 17:19                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 18:10                                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13 21:02                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14  9:08                                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 13:33                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-14 14:40                                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 15:26                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-13 10:45             ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-13 10:59               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 10:18           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 11:51             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-14 22:21               ` Manuel Collado
2012-02-15  4:09                 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-15  6:13                   ` Niklas Holsti
2012-02-15 11:26                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 11:39                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 11:47                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15  6:30                   ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-15  8:36                     ` Simon Wright
2012-02-15 22:56                     ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-15 11:27                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 11:43                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 12:33                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-15 12:55                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-15 17:30                           ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2012-02-09 22:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-09 22:35 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-10 14:38   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10  9:47 ` Mart van de Wege
2012-02-10 14:24   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-13  3:02     ` BrianG
2012-02-10 12:19 ` Brian Drummond
2012-02-10 14:22   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-10 19:16   ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-11 16:31 ` Martin Dowie
2012-02-16 17:44 ` Convention for naming of anything Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 19:46   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 21:53     ` Manuel Collado
2012-02-17 22:12       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 23:52   ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-18  0:24     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-18  0:50       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-18 22:53         ` BrianG
2012-02-19 11:16           ` Simon Wright
2012-03-06  0:36             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-18 11:32   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-18 13:02     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-19 18:07   ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-19 21:53     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-20  0:21       ` Phil Clayton
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