On 7/25/2014 8:17 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On 2014-07-25, at 08:40, John Gilmore wrote:
We disagree, sharply. The abbreviation of long keyword/set element
values using the notion of a case-independent disambiguating
truncation is 1) convenient and 2) easy to teach in the sense that
programmers and others come to understand it quickly.
And here, I take Fred's side.
I LOVE abbreviations for interactive commands and their operands ... and
HATE them in any kind of source code.
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Edward E Jaffe
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