On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2018-05-04 19:45 GMT+03:00 Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com>: > >> Ramon Leon-5 wrote >> > And my point made; I don't even know what that means. >> >> Ha ha, I googled it and even after seeing the definition still didn't >> understand - we must be getting old ;-) >> >> Regarding the use of acronyms - while I agree with you as a general >> principle, I wonder about this case. Since the argument IIUC is that "a >> general user won't know the domain well enough to understand the acronym", >> would they understand "abstractSyntaxTree"?! > > > Now I am wonder: is it really correct to call syntax tree as abstract when > it is really implemented? > AST is very known term but now when I read it word by word I have such > questions :). > In computer science, an *abstract syntax tree* (AST), or just *syntax tree*, is a *tree* representation of the *abstract syntactic *structure of source code written in a programming language. [Wikipedia] > > >> That, to me, is as opaque as >> the acronym for one not acquainted with the domain, and may buy us little >> at >> the cost of a good amount of extra typing. Maybe keep the acronym and add >> a >> good method comment… >> >> >> >> ----- >> Cheers, >> Sean >> -- >> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html >> >> >
