On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think readability can favor typedefs too, though, and tried to say that. > Sorry for being unclear about "consumers". Readers do not benefit > indefinitely (for every occurrence, say hundreds to thousands in a source > file) from using exclusively long-hands, even ignoring costs to writers. > Good code can even use a "local typedef" to avoid mindless repetition.
+1 Huffman encoding is a good rule of thumb for names -- common names should be short. And something that is more readable to a complete newcomer can be less readable to someone with some familiarity. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
