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From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-08 12:34:38


 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Deane Yang
| Sent: 08 June 2006 17:01
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] [review] pqs
|
| 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.

Agree strongly. Am thinking of founding a scoiety for the Abolition of
TLAs. You can guess its acronym ;-))

Type once, read many, so DON'T abbreviate.

Yours senility...

Paul

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