On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: > Abbreviations are for people typing input (in general, commands). > Using abbreviations in programs and script is a bad idea and asking > for troubles.
You should have a look at R (http://www.r-project.org/) and its calling conventions. Named parameters to functions can typically (though not always) be abbreviated. It's quite nice. R's calling syntax is in general super cool. -Ken
