On 2008-Sep-23, at 2:32 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote:
My other thought is that since parameters are read-only by default
it's not
thought you'd have to write it much so clarity wins out over
brevity, the flip
side of Huffamn encoding. But that doesn't work out so good for
normal
variable declarations.
I'd call it straight Huffman encoding, because clarity is what we
should be optimising for. (You read code more than you write it...
unless you never make any mistakes!) 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".
-David
