From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:57:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201112357.aa29916@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJnqBR1EqAuATzuVKkgxfxDfeOprtsgQ=XcWuPiDOj+6ZdvSA@mail.gmail.com>
One thing to remember about descriptive identifiers is that the
compiler doesn't check whether the descriptions are accurate or
not. Often they were when the code was first written, but become
less so over time. Sometimes they were never accurate. One nice
thing about i, j, etc. is that you aren't tempted to make assumptions
about them that aren't backed up by the code. But I'm a mathematician,
so I tend to have peculiar ideas about such things.
--
John Stalker
School of Mathematics
Trinity College Dublin
tel +353 1 896 1983
fax +353 1 896 2282
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 18:41 smiley
2012-01-11 18:53 ` Richard Miller
2012-01-12 20:20 ` Yaroslav
2012-01-11 19:01 ` Jeremy Jackins
2012-01-11 20:37 ` Russ Cox
2012-01-11 20:45 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-11 21:20 ` John Floren
2012-01-11 21:25 ` Russ Cox
2012-01-11 23:00 ` Iruatã Souza
2012-01-11 23:57 ` John Stalker [this message]
2012-01-12 1:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
[not found] ` <CAJSxfmJdLV8NMJgMFPcqCP+=ZGe8k2U=PcdkpexwUzbcL442+Q@mail.gmail.c>
2012-01-12 2:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-12 15:18 ` Comeau At9Fans
2012-01-12 17:56 ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-01-12 23:07 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-01-13 14:55 ` Andrés Domínguez
2012-01-16 10:02 ` faif
2012-01-16 11:04 ` John Stalker
2012-01-16 22:50 ` smiley
2012-01-16 22:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
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