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| From | raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" |
| Date | 2015-11-17 23:00 +0000 |
| Organization | Go wash your mouth. |
| Message-ID | <564bb08f.28463062@news.xs4all.nl> (permalink) |
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote: > Mathematical convention is to write much of information in natural > language, so that your single-letter identifiers are explained. And > mathematical convention is that you usually have only a small number of > identifiers "in scope" at a time. > > The equivalent in programming is using "i" as a loop variable, and other > short or single-letter identifiers in small local scopes where their > meaning is obvious. And that is common practice - most people agree > that "for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)" is fine, and clearer and more > readable than using "index" or "loop_counter" as the variable name. > > But the bigger the scope of an identifier, the more expressive the > identifier needs to be. Remember also that a mathematical proof of a hundred pages is still considered to be large, and only rare proofs reach as many as a thousand. Meanwhile, even I on my own have written programs whose complete listings run to a hundred pages, and I don't work on large projects, only medium ones. So programming needs even more expressive names than mathematics, because there is just so much more of it to take in at once. Richard
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-17 20:12 +0000
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-17 23:38 -0600
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 20:25 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-16 13:28 -0800
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 21:30 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 20:24 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-11-17 23:00 +0000
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-11-17 22:55 +0000
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 08:39 -0800
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-20 14:16 -0800
[OT] Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-20 17:30 -0500
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Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 13:17 -0800
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-21 07:08 +0000
Re: Development Best Practices and C "nomenclature" Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-22 13:52 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-15 17:03 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-15 15:09 -0500
Re: Array manipulation techniques Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-15 21:47 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-15 17:02 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-16 10:44 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-11-16 11:13 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-16 11:57 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-17 10:30 +1300
Re: Array manipulation techniques Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-17 08:11 -0500
Re: Array manipulation techniques BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-17 13:24 +0000
Re: Array manipulation techniques Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 13:09 -0800
Re: Array manipulation techniques Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-20 16:20 -0500
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