On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 21:22:00 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 20:54:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I recall that my naming of "setExt()" was universally panned
for using an abbreviation.
No, it was because the abbreviation was the sole distinction
from another function's name.
Yeah. As long as abbreviations are reasonably clear they're
actually a _good_ thing because they reduce code length without
losing clarity. When you have multiword symbol names, they get
ugly _really_ fast if you don't abbreviate. It's one of the
things that tends to make Java code ugly; they frequently have
overly long names because they don't abbreviate.
- Jonathan M Davis
