On 7/16/06, Rick White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 16, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, "David M. Cooke" apparently wrote: > >> 'inverse' is not much longer than 'inv', and is more descriptive > > > > But 'inv' is quite universal (can you name a matrix language > > that uses 'inverse' instead?) and I think unambiguous (what > > might it be confused with?). > > IDL uses invert, so inv is not exactly universal. > > I'm personally a fan of names that can be used in interactive > sessions at the command line, which argues for shorter names. But it > is nice to have names where you can type just a few characters and > use tab-completion to fill in the rest of the name. Then the > important thing is not the full length of the name but having the > first 3 or 4 characters be memorable. So I'd rather have > "pseudoinverse" because I can probably find it by just typing "ps<tab>".
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