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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names
Message-ID: <2779@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 23:33:04 GMT
References: <2318@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2835@enea.se> <1810@sics.se> <25548@cca.CCA.COM> <2857@enea.se>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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In article <2857@enea.se> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>  But if you mean to imply that NumOfAcc would be better than 
>NumberOfAccidents, I have to object.

I don't much care for either of these alternatives.  Looking at the words
here, 'Number' is convention and should be abbreviated, 'Of' is
superfluous, and 'Accidents' contains the meat of the name.  (Just to keep
things down, I would omit the final 's' here, since it can be inferred from
the 'Number' prefix.)  This gives us NumAccident or nAccident, depending on
which convention you use for 'Number'.
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