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: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-24 20:37:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!jschauma From: jschauma@netmeister.org (Jan Schaumann) 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 ? Followup-To: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 03:37:51 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <9ekfrt$mja$0@pita.alt.net> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:9872 comp.lang.ada:7743 comp.lang.awk:2581 comp.lang.clarion:20301 comp.lang.java.programmer:70568 comp.lang.pl1:626 comp.lang.vrml:3307 Date: 2001-05-25T03:37:51+00:00 List-Id: * Chris Smith wrote: > "00001111" <00001111@my-deja.net> wrote ... > > Anybody use variables/names longer than 31 character > > and finds it really useful ? > > Yes, I do occasionally use very long identifiers. Normally, I do so when I > am using a lot of identifiers according to a set naming convention. For > example, I might, in a Swing GUI application, declare an Action subclass > called: > > viewPreferencesGeneralOptionsAction > > That's 35 characters. If that's really my menu structure (that is, view | > prefs | general | options) then I really want to use that variable name. viewPrefsGenOptAction - that's 21, and just as readable. -Jan -- Jan Schaumann http://www.netmeister.org