re: [Gnumed-devel] Starting a Flame war on nomenclature

[sjtan]

as Richard is reaching his Renaissance in programming, I think I'm 
reaching my Middle Ages.

Anyway, time enough for idle chit chat

>         : EB    EMPTY-BUFFERS;
>
> and to then use that throughout the code, which then becomes essentially 
> UNREADABLE to anyone else but the programmer.
>
> So, he extolled - 'Be proud to type 'EMPTY-BUFFERS'.
I think it's a balance sometimes. Sometimes it's easier to read x,y,z  
,  i,j,k    , especially when
doing some  oft repeated  loop, algorithm  etc, or when too many names 
exist on the line, and the
line is hard to read, when all you want to show is the code structure.
On the other hand, I had to rewrite   the idiom "for ( k, v) in  
l.items()"  several times recently, because
I'd forgotten what was in the list l, what the type of  v was, and what 
domain the string k  came from !!