From: andrey mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vga and ethernet
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:59:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.10.10108011051320.758-100000@irixbum.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010801165316.7E8D119A3F@mail.cse.psu.edu>
When I was much younger than today (hehe) and was making my first steps in
the fine art of debugging my own programs, I read something that stuck with
me forever -- one's programs will be much more readable if ambiguity over
character interpratation (l vs 1 vs I, O vs 0 in some fonts, etc) is
avoided. I.e. choose variable names wisely so that they can't be
misinterpreted by the reader...
I am left with the impression that I read it initially in 'the practice of
programming' but I couldn't find it anywhere in my copy of the book, so I
can't attribute it to anyone right now :(
andrey
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 baldwin@vitanuova.com wrote:
> it's '#I0', not '#10' -- that's I (eye), not 1 (one),
> followed by 0 (zero), not O (oh).
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-01 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 16:53 baldwin
2001-08-01 17:59 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2001-08-03 9:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-08-04 1:09 ` Boyd Roberts
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2001-08-01 17:09 Dean Ash
2001-07-31 19:07 [9fans] vga and Ethernet Dean Ash
2001-07-31 12:04 [9fans] vga and ethernet presotto
2001-07-31 3:41 Dean Ash
2001-07-31 4:08 ` Lucio De Re
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