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On 2014-12-08 01:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>>> I take it as "result", which makes plenty of sense to me.
>>
>> OK, so spell it out.  Three more keystrokes (well, plus another three
>> when you use it on the next line).  And one of them is a vowel; they
>> don't even cost much.  The next guy who has to read your code will thank
>> you for it.
>
> Maybe. Personally, I don't mind the odd abbreviation; they keep the
> code small enough to eyeball, rather than spelling everything out
> everywhere. Using "cur" (or "curr") for current, "next" for next,
> "prev" for previous, as prefixes to a short word saying *what* they're
> the current/next/previous of, is sufficiently obvious IMO to justify
> the repeated use of the abbreviation. Why does Python have "int" and
> "str" rather than "integer" and "string"? Or, worse,
> "arbitrary_precision_integer" and "unicode_codepoint_string"? Common
> words get shortened - it's a legit form of Huffman compression.
>
Not to mention "len", "def", "iter", etc.