Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!sommar
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Readable names
Message-ID: <2899@enea.se>
Date: 22 Mar 88 22:32:05 GMT
References: <2857@enea.se> <2779@mmintl.UUCP>
Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog)
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Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Frank Adams (franka@mmintl.UUCP) writes:
>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'.

You don't live as learn I see. Or else why do you use so many superfluous
words and letters? Let's take the first sentence. It's quite clear that
you are one who don't care, so drop "I". "Do" is just a dummy, away
with it. "For" and "of" and just prepositions and syntactic sugar. 
The "s" in "Alternatives" is clear from "these" and besides "Alt" is 
the standard abbreviation, and should be used. And what on earth does 
"either" tell us? Nothing! You should have written "Not care much these alt". 
Much clearer, more consice and faster for us to read. 
-- 
Erland Sommarskog       
ENEA Data, Stockholm        
sommar@enea.UUCP           "Si tu crois l'amour tabou...
                            Regarde bien, les yeux d'un fou!!!" -- Ange