On 2014-12-08 01:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
I take it as "result", which makes plenty of sense to me.
OK, so spell it out. Three more keystrokes (well, plus another three
when you use it on the next line). And one of them is a vowel; they
don't even cost much. The next guy who has to read your code will thank
you for it.
Maybe. Personally, I don't mind the odd abbreviation; they keep the
code small enough to eyeball, rather than spelling everything out
everywhere. Using "cur" (or "curr") for current, "next" for next,
"prev" for previous, as prefixes to a short word saying *what* they're
the current/next/previous of, is sufficiently obvious IMO to justify
the repeated use of the abbreviation. Why does Python have "int" and
"str" rather than "integer" and "string"? Or, worse,
"arbitrary_precision_integer" and "unicode_codepoint_string"? Common
words get shortened - it's a legit form of Huffman compression.
Not to mention "len", "def", "iter", etc.
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