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Subject: Re: "...the value becomes,indeterminate each time the declaration is reached"
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:24:02 -0800
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mark.bluemel@gmail.com writes:

> On Friday, 15 February 2019 12:42:26 UTC, Malcolm McLean  wrote:
...
>> Use of single letter identifiers keeps expression length down.
>
> And that's necessarily a good thing?

It necessarily offers some benefits.  Whether those benefits
outweigh the associated costs depends on many factors and on the
particular situation:  in some it will, in others it won't.