Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-08 00:03 +0300) wrote: >>>> >>>> I think we should stick to one identifier style, which is to always use >>>> full words (I’m often tempted to use abbreviations and I force myself >>>> not to, as silly as I am!) >>> >>> Good to know, I always thought that things like "pkg" or "drv" are OK in >>> a local scope. >> >> Well, ahem, ‘drv’ is an exception… >> >> Otherwise I think the rationale of the “Naming” section at >> <http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt> is a good one. > > I totally agree with the suggestions made in this section. However > these conventions don't talk about "bound variables" which is IMO a > different context than the global name space. > > I used to think that full words everywhere were a good thing, by > opposition of the unhelpful variables 'i' and 'x'. Nonetheless, with > the experience (short I admit) I tend to think that an abbreviation is > still helpful for bound variables because it helps distinguishing them > from free variables. It is even more true when the meaning of this > abbrevation is made explicit by the doc-string.
Yeah I was thinking along these lines at some point (as is apparent in older parts of Guix ;-)), but my preference du jour is different. Anyway, we’ll see next time such an issue comes up! Ludo’.
