Why to stop there? We could also change our class prefixes.
Why to put HTTPSomething when we could put HyperTextTransferProtocolSomething ?
:)
cheers!
Esteban
> On 8 May 2018, at 05:15, Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> #onDNU:do:
>
> That one's not so good. Not so much because of the acronym, but because it's
> unclear about what the argument is. A better name would be
> #onUndefinedSelector:do:
>
> #gcd:
> #lcm:
>
>
> These come from elementary (primary school in my day) mathematics. They are
> the standard names.
>
> #rem:
> #quo:
>
> These are not acronyms. They are more intelligible than // and \\. But yes,
> {floor,ceiling,rounded,truncated}{Quotient,Remainder}:
> would be clearer. #quo: and #rem: are sufficiently rare
> that it wouldn't hurt if they were longer.
> BUT they are in the Blue Book and in the standard.
>
> #ulp
>
> This is indeed an acronym, and it's probably obscure
> to many programmers. But practically every paper I have read about
> floating-point issues uses this; it is
> a technical term of art. Spelling it out as #unitOfLeastPrecision as
> VisualWorks does, and as
> both Squeak and Pharo do in their comments, is the
> reverse of helpful, because that is not what 'ulp'
> stands for. It's Unit in the Last Place. Now there IS
> a case for giving #ulp a long name, but that's not it.
> There are some subtleties in the definition.
> http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2005/RR2005-09.pdf
> <http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2005/RR2005-09.pdf>
> lists, by my count, five definitions. The first is obsolete,
> The fifth is a hybrid of some of the others. It turns out
> that I knew less about ULPs than I thought I did.
>
> #ln
>
> #NaperianLogarithm won't help anyone who doesn't
> know who Napier was or what a logarithm is. I
> suppose #logarithmToBaseE might work.
>
> #theta
>
> That is not an acronym. It is spelled out in full.
> Using Greek letters for arbitrary angles goes back
> roughly two thousand years. To the Greeks, in fact.
> Blame them, not Pharo.
>
> #r
> #g
> #b
>
> I can think of at least two meanings for each of these, so granted.
>
>
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> On 8 May 2018 at 04:57, webwarrior <r...@webwarrior.ws
> <mailto:r...@webwarrior.ws>> wrote:
> If you guys are to get rid of acronyms in method names, cosider the
> following:
>
> #onDNU:do:
> #gcd:
> #lcm:
> #rem:
> #quo:
> #ulp
> #ln
> #theta
> #r
> #g
> #b
>
> and others.
> Then if you get bored again there are a lot of contractions, too, especially
> in Number and subclasses.
> Like #abs, #sqrt, #sin, #cos, ...
>
>
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