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- From: mbk@jt3ws1.etd.ornl.gov (Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: whither style
- Followup-To: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 09:14:25 GMT
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
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- Chuck Hinkle (clhinkle@shellus.com) wrote:
- > Don't you think that coding style is really too full of personal preferences to ever
- > successfully debate it with someone else; because we think differently and approach
- > problems differently, there's no guarantee that what works for one person is good
- > for anyone else.
-
- > HN has always seemed, to me, to be a substitute for fully descriptive (long)
- > variable names and for comprehensive inline documentation. But then, I type well, so
- > I'm not looking for shorthand styles which, I feel, reduce readability.
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-
- I think this issue is a distraction.
-
- It isn't the names of variables which really matters, it's the names of
- types, their interfaces, and how to reflect the larger scale intellectual
- organization in a good notation and naming convention which ought to be
- the central issue.
-
- As usual Bertrand Meyer makes a go of this important matter.
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- > Chuck Hinkle; [INTJ]
- > Shell Services Company
-
- > "Perception is usually more persuasive than reality."
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