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: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-09 16:21:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.huji.ac.il!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Lamm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: if statements Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:12:52 +0200 Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Message-ID: <8ufek5$2et$1@news.huji.ac.il> References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A09A39F.2822C01B@cepsz.unizar.es> <8udce8$1qi$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ufd4n$obj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: di2-72.dialin.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 973815238 2525 132.64.12.72 (10 Nov 2000 00:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.huji.ac.il NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:13:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1970 Date: 2000-11-10T02:12:52+02:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote > I disagree, this is long-nameitis carried to absurd extremes. > Rewritten the way I had it the life time of Temp is three > lines and it is obvious that it is initialized with the value > of A. It merely obfuscates code to use long names where they > do not help the reader. I actually think a more appropriate > choice of name would have been T :-) > Sometimes I just love you! Please help us get rid of names like long_name_instead_of_temp_which_R_Dewar_would_have_called_T What's important is readbility. Meaningful names are important. Long length is really not a substitute for good names. Most often, the reverse. -- Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il http://www.cafepress.com/ehudlamm <== Some art