On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 10:32:08 UTC-7, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 06:46:10PM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2015-09-23 18:44, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > >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... > > > > On the other hand, with TAB-completion, that doesn't really matter so > much. > > Note that adding abbreviations actually *breaks* tab-completion and turns > out to be counter-productive: > > sage: a = 0.1 > sage: a.alg<TAB> > > Here, the pseudo-faster 'algdep' breaks the autocompletion of > algebraic_dependency, and makes both algdep and algebraic_dependency > slower to find, for no benefit. >
I don't think this thread is about adding abbreviations for function names, it's about the names themselves. There are well-accepted abbreviations in various areas of maths, e.g. ILP for Integer Linear Programming. Would it be acceptable to have ILP rather than LinearProgramming in a function name, e.g. BlahFooByILP rather than BlahFooByIntegerLinearProgramming ? > Ciao, > Thierry > > > > > > -- > > 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- 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.
