On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:
> No, I never stated that, because I don't believe it.
>
> Using higher-level concepts with fewer *tokens* will reduce the number of
> bugs. It just so happens that few tokens usually result in shorter code.
>
>
Thats not what you said, you made a generalised sweeping statement that can
only be wrong because nothing in software is ever that simple.
> I don't even consider comments when thinking about how long code is,
> because comments aren't code.
>
> Using shorter identifiers *may* reduce the risk of bugs if they're
> otherwise so long that they obscure the essential complexity of an
> algorithm. Seriously, would you write something like this?
>
> for(int
> indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration=0;
> indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration<=authorsFromNameQuery.length;
> ++indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration) {
> Author currentAuthorBeingIteratedOver
> = authorsFromNameQuery[indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration]
> // do something with the author
> }
>
> Do you NOT believe that shorter names would make the example clearer?
>
> On 25 October 2010 02:38, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> @Kevin
>>
>> I guess refactoring code so all identifiers are really short single
>> characters ( a human powered obfuscator) means i just made my code have less
>> bugs..right ?
>>
>> If my class names are shorter and thus my source files have less
>> characters does that mean my code has less bugs ?
>>
>> if my code has no comments does that mean it has less bugs ?
>>
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