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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do you name table/structure elements?
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.165630.16216@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp> <1990Jan17.194804.15864@utzoo.uucp> <33341@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 16:56:30 GMT

In article <33341@watmath.waterloo.edu> datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay) writes:
>My reason for using the table/structure descriptive style is to help
>me follow the chain of types in an expression...
>Given that I know the prefixes, they make the expression a little more
>readable for me...

I *tend* to feel that if expression readability has become a problem,
there are deeper difficulties present, like poorly-named fields or poorly-
designed code.  That is, trouble in keeping track of what's going on is
just a symptom, and understanding and curing the underlying problem -- why
is the code so hard to follow? -- is better than slapping on a syntactic
bandaid.
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