hi, > Check out my paper from PPIG 2006: > http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/abegel/papers/ppig-naming.pdf
Thanks, I just skimmed it. I probably haven't explained well at all what I had in mind. I searched for "bug" and "error" with no hits. It so far appears to me to be a review of how naming is used; doesn't get into the resulting impacts of those uses and choices. Now that I think about it, I guess the sort of thing I have in mind is: has anybody somehow managed to study a bug database and the fixes and figure out %ages of what caused the bugs, and if it is possible to figure out that naming was a problem, how much was due to problems with naming? I guess it would be quite hard to tease it out. Presumably naming hasn't caused Arianne to crash or anything like that (http://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/) so I'm really probably only ranting about my own little pet peeve. Apologies. sincerely. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
