Re: Spell-checking source code

["Jakob Bieling" <netsurf@gmy.net>]

"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@crs4.it> wrote in message
news:3F8BFCF5.6020906@crs4.it...

> Jakob Bieling wrote:

> > "Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@crs4.it> wrote:

> > > I wouldn't like that.  Incorrectly spelled identifiers make code
> > > maintenance more difficult.

> >     I do not know how you choose your identifier names, but I usually
give
> > them abbreviated prefixes,

> I practically never use abbreviations or acronyms in identifiers -


    Not sure where I picked that habit up, but I guess it is pure laziness.
I could not imagine having to type those long names everytime you use them.
Especially counter variables in for-loops (posting from comp.lang.c++) ..
you also use simple i's and j's etc. there, right? As you seem to be posting
from comp.lang.ada, I am not too sure if Ada provides such constructs in the
same way C++ does, so maybe Ada has different means of looping in a
for-loop-kind-of-way (yes, I know pretty much nothing about Ada).

    Also, sometimes I tend to abbreviate quite a lot, so that later I might
not know what it stands for. In cases like those I just put a comment next
to where I declared the variable and I can keep saving those keystrokes.

regards
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jb

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