Just my opinion on this issue of long names. Generally I don't like them because they are often redundant and make code unnecessarily long. With long lines come the mask width issues with many defending that lines should not be longer that 80 character. If lines are long and instructions need to be broken in several lines we pay that in vertical space.
Having to scroll up and down to try to understand what a function does is orders of magnitude worst than the little mental blink that goes between 'LinAlg' and 'LinearAlgebra' terça-feira, 28 de Abril de 2015 às 21:44:40 UTC+1, François Fayard escreveu: > > Sorry for being a pain, but doesn't LinAlg be LinearAlgebra? What's the > point of issuing naming convention if it is not even respected by the main > developers? > > Besides, I really find that Julia underuses multiple dispatch. It's a big > selling point of the language and it's not even used that much in the > standard library! Mathematica has a kind of multiple dispatch and it's what > makes the language so consistent. If people mimic Matlab, multiple dispatch > will be underused.
