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- From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Productivity of a C programmer ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov04.110227.13918@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 11:02:27 GMT
- References: <1992Oct22.162311.17370@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <Bwtn3H.F2@iat.holonet.net> <1992Oct29.085752.25264@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> <1992Oct30.194551.11927@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- lehman@george.arc.nasa.gov (John Lehman -- GDP) writes:
- ...
- :Also, it's better to use a variable "ii"
- :than a variable "i", so that a maintainer can search
- :for occurrences of "ii" (in an editor) whereas if
- :the variable is just "i" the search will catch many
- :lines that aren't really of interest. In this case
- :twice as many characters yields about 3 or 4 times
- :as much total usefulness.
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- Is it too much to ask the maintainer to search with \<i\> so that only
- the WORD i will be found?!?!!! That's with good old rudimental VI - I
- assume any "programmer editor" will make it even easier, of course.
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