Guys, I am sorry I missed this discussion. Apparently, abbreviations use is far from being the biggest problem in the project. I think everyone agrees here.
I vote for leaving abbreviations mandatory, and would be strongly against making them optional since we will endup in situation when different lines of the same method or class will contain abbreviated and non-abbreviated variables, fields and parameters names. This will look ugly. I think nobody thought about source files that are several thousands lines long. Undo abbreviations throughout the entire project is hard work, pretty stupid to do on such huge code base and I am sure will introduce problems and failures on TeamCity. Instead I want to suggest the following: 1. Abbreviations stay mandatory. Making them optional does not make any sense. 2. List of abbreviations should be shortened to up to 20 items and we should leave only those which are common sense. 3. Contributor may also choose to use full words in complex variable names if there is a mix of abbreviated and non-abbreviated words if this helps with readability. I will suggest shorter abbreviations list today or tomorrow and let you know in this thread. Thanks! --Yakov
