On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:25:51 UTC-7, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > What is our policy with respect to abbreviations in fuctions/methods? > > I believe that we "tried to avoid them", but it does not seem to be > written anywhere in the developer's manual. >
one has to draw a line somewhere; 40-symbol names must be forbidden outright, and 20-symbol names ought to be avoided without a very good reasons to the contrary... Long-naming decease is reaching epidemic proportions in some parts of sage, where we have blah.FooBarBlah all over the place, whereas blah.FooBar is shorter and carries as much info then the current form. > Nathann > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
