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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:33:41 -0800
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From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions
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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. =A0Often they were when the code was first written, but become
> less so over time. =A0Sometimes they were never accurate. =A0One 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. =A0But 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
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