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- Item forwarded by A33 to A34
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- Item 3192219 8-April-90 23:23PDT
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- From: MADA2 MacApp Dev Assoc, Curtis Faith,IVC
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Abb.'s Plc. In McAp. (huh?)
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- I have a request for MacApp 2.1 or whatever post 2.0 will be called.
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- I would like someone to take a good hard look at the names in MacApp and fix
- them.
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- I particular I am referring to abbreviations. Why not use the whole word? We
- can always abbreviate in our own code and then globally replace if we don't
- like to type. I end up having to type things twice after the compiler flags
- wrong abbreviations.
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- TList uses InsertBefore, InsertLast etc, but then balks at number in
- GetEqualItemNo. Why not GetEqualItemNumber? I have to think: Is that Num,
- Number or No? I would prefer to type another few letters!
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- TGridView uses InsRowBefore instead of InsertRowBefore as one might expect
- based on looking at TList. If we are going to abbreviate insert let's do it
- all the time or not at all.
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- I have also seen numerous instances of abbreviations of 4 letter words to 3,
- text to txt, item to itm etc. One letter is not worth the trouble!
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- We have enough problems already trying to figure out the Toolbox. Quickdraw
- uses DisposPixMap and at the same time DisposeRgn. This is Madness! It
- catches me every single time!
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- I would rather have everything be fixed once and have it break every
- application I ever wrote so I could be done with this. It would be pretty easy
- to write a script to globally replace the new words anyway.
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- Here are my suggestions:
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- 1) Don't use abbreviations unless you can save 4 or 5 characters. App for
- application and coord for coordinate is ok by me. itm for item or even eql for
- equal is not.
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- 2) If you break rule 1 break it everytime for a given word.
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- 3) Only break rule 2 if you want me to write another link.
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- This is really trivial stuff, but then I am sometimes bugged by trivial things
- at 11:15 on Sunday nights.
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- Cheers!
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- - Curtis
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