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From: Deane Yang (deane_yang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-08 12:00:33


Andy Little wrote:

> It might even be possible to abbreviate it and keep the sense:
>
> velocity:: m_p_s
> velocity:: mi_p_h
> acceleration::m_p_s2;
> reciprocal_time::p_s;
> reciprocal_mass::p_kg;
> mass_flow::kg_p_s;
>

Please, less abbreviations. You, as the inventor of the abbreviations,
might find them easy to keep track of, but I, with an aging and rapidly
deteriorating memory, find them too cryptic. The elimination of cryptic
abbreviated names is for me one of the major advances in programming.


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