You should code in A+ , I am sure you would love it On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> No, I never stated that, because I don't believe it. > > Using higher-level concepts with fewer *tokens* will reduce the number of > bugs. It just so happens that few tokens usually result in shorter code. > > I don't even consider comments when thinking about how long code is, > because comments aren't code. > > Using shorter identifiers *may* reduce the risk of bugs if they're > otherwise so long that they obscure the essential complexity of an > algorithm. Seriously, would you write something like this? > > for(int > indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration=0; > indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration<=authorsFromNameQuery.length; > ++indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration) { > Author currentAuthorBeingIteratedOver > = authorsFromNameQuery[indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration] > // do something with the author > } > > Do you NOT believe that shorter names would make the example clearer? > > > On 25 October 2010 02:38, Miroslav Pokorny <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> @Kevin >> >> I guess refactoring code so all identifiers are really short single >> characters ( a human powered obfuscator) means i just made my code have less >> bugs..right ? >> >> If my class names are shorter and thus my source files have less >> characters does that mean my code has less bugs ? >> >> if my code has no comments does that mean it has less bugs ? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com > pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.