Re: Readable names

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From: Frank Adams
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1988 21:51

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In article <2899@enea.se> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
|Frank Adams (franka@mmintl.UUCP) writes:
|>[Re: variable names NumberOfAccidents vs NumOfAcc]
|>I don't much care for either of these alternatives. ... This gives us
|>NumAccident or nAccident, depending on which convention you use for
|>'Number'.
|
|... You should have written "Not care much these alt".

Quite funny.  English not programming language.  Redundency role oral,
unneeded written.  Eliminate?  Confusion: two language.  Transition.  May
lose meaning, not careful: example, keep "for"; could be "not care much
between these alt".  Don't need "these": "Not care much for alt".
-- 

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Ashton-Tate          52 Oakland Ave North         E. Hartford, CT 06108

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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Readable names
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