Re: [boost] [review] pqs

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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