On 2008 Sep 24, at 17:45, David Green wrote:
On 2008-Sep-23, at 5:27 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote:
David Green wrote:
Happily, brevity often aids clarity. The rest of the time, it
should be up to one's editor; any editor worth its salt ought to
easily auto-complete "ro" into "readonly".
Eeep! The "your IDE should write your verbose code for you"
argument! For that one, I brine and roast an adorable hamster.
Fair enough. As long as you remember to share with the rest of us!!
I would argue that if you need your editor to expand verbose language
constructs to make the language usable or to express common idioms,
then the language has a design deficiency.
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