On May 3, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Matthias Felleisen wrote at 05/03/2012 10:57 PM: >> I don't think Eli is proposing an elimination of the old names but >> supplementing the code base with new ones. >> >> I am in favor -- Matthias > > Would be good to have a shorter naming convention for all parameters. The > "current-" prefix is not short, but it's what I've been using when coding new > parameters, because that's the convention. > > Of course, a naming convention is much less important when we have static > checking of argument types, but we usually don't.
General, off specific topic: Even in the presence of [on-line] type checking, naming conventions make programs readable, as do other conventions. -- Matthias _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
