Re: autoabbrev algorithm from Getopt::Long

2009-02-22 Thread Ken Williams
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Johan Vromans jvrom...@squirrel.nl wrote: Abbreviations are for people typing input (in general, commands). Using abbreviations in programs and script is a bad idea and asking for troubles. You should have a look at R (http://www.r-project.org/) and its calling

Re: autoabbrev algorithm from Getopt::Long

2009-02-22 Thread Johan Vromans
[Quoting Ken Williams, on February 22 2009, 06:55, in Re: autoabbrev algor] You should have a look at R (http://www.r-project.org/) and its calling conventions. Named parameters to functions can typically (though not always) be abbreviated. How does it handle ambiguousness introduced by