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From: scs@foxvax1.UUCP (S.C. Schwarm )
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Long Names --> Short for free
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 13:25:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 13:25:24 1983
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A system I used for short aliases was:

  1) the first letter of the word had to be the first letter of the long
     name.

  2) after that any sequence of letters in the order that they occur in the
     name.

example:

If the words STOP and START are the only commands that start with "S" then
the STOP command could be entered as:
STOP,STP,SO,SP
but not:
ST
If the entry was ambiguous, the system would list the choices.
This system had a very dynamic name space and we wanted to use Looong names.

I got the idea from a SIGPLAN article of about 5 years ago.  Sorry I don't
remember the reference.

	Steve Schwarm
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