From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] destructive local opens
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 09:36:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150806133641.GA7287@topoi.pooq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83423180DE1A4F0BAFAA8CF111E9724B@erratique.ch>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:19:08AM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le jeudi, 6 août 2015 à 10:21, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> > > It also has
> > >
> > > val ox : t
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > Whatever for?
>
> It could have been `e1`, `ex`, `i`, all these names are used in the mathematical literature to stand for the unit vector on the x-axis. As you can see all these names are short and there is absolutely no point in inventing something special just to avoid *your* dogma that two letter identifiers should only be used for local identifiers. Identifiers should match the vocabulary of the domain you are dealing with.
Just as in <math.h> in C, which defined y0 and y1.
-- hendrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-03 13:39 Nils Becker
2015-08-03 13:43 ` Thomas Refis
2015-08-03 13:45 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-03 13:47 ` Daniel Bünzli
[not found] ` <55BF75F6.1040006@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de>
2015-08-03 14:24 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-03 14:37 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-03 14:43 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-03 15:10 ` octachron
2015-08-03 15:22 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-03 16:13 ` octachron
2015-08-03 16:51 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-03 17:18 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-03 17:59 ` octachron
2015-08-06 13:23 ` RE : " moreno pedro
2015-08-04 6:51 ` Petter Urkedal
2015-08-04 9:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-05 6:40 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2015-08-05 10:16 ` David Allsopp
2015-08-06 9:35 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-04 13:50 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-04 9:26 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-04 9:38 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-04 12:26 ` vrotaru.md
2015-08-04 13:12 ` David Allsopp
2015-08-04 13:17 ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-08-04 13:54 ` vrotaru.md
2015-08-04 15:25 ` Drup
2015-08-04 22:22 ` vrotaru.md
2015-08-04 22:55 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-05 4:52 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-04 13:14 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2015-08-14 10:55 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-14 11:28 ` Drup
2015-08-18 11:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-18 12:52 ` David Allsopp
2015-08-18 13:00 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-18 22:26 ` Anthony Tavener
2015-08-19 13:55 ` Oleg
2015-08-19 14:13 ` John Whitington
2015-08-19 15:47 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-19 15:52 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-08-19 18:09 ` Anthony Tavener
2015-08-19 15:55 ` Simon Cruanes
2015-08-19 16:42 ` Arthur Wendling
2015-08-19 21:15 ` octachron
2015-08-20 8:06 ` Romain Bardou
2015-08-20 17:03 ` Yotam Barnoy
2015-08-20 19:19 ` Erkki Seppala
2015-08-06 9:23 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-06 9:21 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-06 10:19 ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-08-06 13:36 ` Hendrik Boom [this message]
2015-08-14 10:57 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2015-08-17 10:17 Nils Becker
2015-08-17 14:26 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-17 15:11 ` Nils Becker
2015-08-17 15:17 ` Drup
2015-08-17 15:18 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-08-17 18:31 ` Hendrik Boom
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