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=0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP, NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-24 20:26:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green 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 ? Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 03:24:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 990761087 24.76.128.193 (Thu, 24 May 2001 20:24:47 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:24:47 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:9871 comp.lang.ada:7742 comp.lang.awk:2578 comp.lang.clarion:20300 comp.lang.java.programmer:70566 comp.lang.pl1:625 comp.lang.vrml:3306 Date: 2001-05-25T03:24:47+00:00 List-Id: On 25 May 2001 03:21:04 GMT, Patricia Shanahan wrote or quoted : >> - "it degrades the legibility of a program to use identifiers that >> can't be easily remembered...." >... > >That is the most important single point, and the reason why long >identifiers are a good thing to have available. The other place long names can be useful is in mechanically generated code. - For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html or http://209.153.246.39/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Almost ready to take on new work.