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From: | Michael D Godfrey |
Subject: | Re: imwrite parameter framework patch (with full gif support) |
Date: | Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:45:23 -0700 |
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On 10/01/2010 11:28 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
This is definitely correct. Descriptive names are best. TheActually, I generally think the opposite, as it is easier for me to understand code that has descriptive names. For example, I was recently trying to understand some things in a function that had one and two letter variable names and found it much harder than it would have been if the names were more descriptive. I finally figured out the mappings (i.e., fc -> facecolor, ec -> edgecolor, etc.), but it took a moment or two and would have just been simpler for me if the longer names were used instead. But I'm a little slow sometimes, so maybe that's just me... jwe justification (wrong then as now) for short names was that long names were laborious to type on a real TTY33. The quicker you are the more trouble short names cause.But I'm a little slow sometimes, so maybe that's just me... Michael |
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