From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:33:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfmJdLV8NMJgMFPcqCP+=ZGe8k2U=PcdkpexwUzbcL442+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201112357.aa29916@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
by way of an example:
int pszBesmirchHungeriansNotation;
-Skip
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:57 PM, John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 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:[~2012-01-12 1:33 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
2012-01-12 1:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
[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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