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From: Greg Russell on 14 Apr 2010 13:11 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:47:27 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >> BTW, I hate this stupid "my ..." naming scheme. It make the UI >> look like it is for an idiot. Do you label your luggage case "my >> lugguage" when traveling? > > I agree. It's one of the factors that gave me an instant dislike of > perl! The "dumbing down" of society to a 5th-grade level seemed to be rather ubiquitous in the last decade of the last century, but "it's MY computer ... MY McDonald's ... MY variable, MYSQL, etc. etc." seems to be more of an angry 2-year-old level.
From: J G Miller on 14 Apr 2010 15:55 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:47:27 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > It's one of the factors that gave me an instant dislike of perl! Emacs lisp also leans towards using "my" as a prefix for user defined variables and functions to distinguish them from similarly named entities in the official released code.
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 14 Apr 2010 19:36 On 2010-04-14, J G Miller wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:47:27 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > >> It's one of the factors that gave me an instant dislike of perl! > > Emacs lisp also leans towards using "my" as a prefix for user defined > variables and functions to distinguish them from similarly named > entities in the official released code. Only two or three that I can see. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
From: LEE Sau Dan on 14 Apr 2010 21:45 >>>>> "unruh" == unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> writes: unruh> Some people like whitespace. "My Recipie File" >> Why use such a long name, when "Recipie" suffices, and is much >> easier to type? unruh> You do know that your likes and dislikes are not universal? unruh> IF all you ever use is a gui to select files, then making the unruh> title of the file into a descriptive sentence can be unruh> useful. Of course, descriptive names are useful. But not "My Recipe File". 1) The "My" is basically contentless. It conveys no more information than "someone's" in this context. 2) The word "File" is superfluous. If that isn't a (computer) file, what is? A paperclip? A pin? A lipstick? So, I don't find "My Recipe File" any more descriptive than "Recipe". The latter is simply more concise and no less precise. IOW, I find your example a bad one. I'm not against giving files more descriptive names. But adding contentless words in the file name is simply a waste of storage space, screen space and the time you spend on parsing and reading it. -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´° ~{@nJX6X~} E-mail: danlee(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: LEE Sau Dan on 14 Apr 2010 21:50
>>>>> "J" == J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> writes: J> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:47:27 +0000, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >> It's one of the factors that gave me an instant dislike of perl! J> Emacs lisp also leans towards using "my" as a prefix for user J> defined variables and functions to distinguish them from J> similarly named entities in the official released code. I don't think so. I've read a lot of Elisp code during the past 17 years of using Emacs, and I've also written non-negligible amount of Elisp code myself, too. I don't see my-.* symbols much. At least not enough for me to develop the tendency to name my own symbols under such a scheme. None of the coding examples I've seen (e.g. in the Elisp manual) contain such symbol names. (BTW, I like Perl, and I use the "my" keyword a lot! But that's not a part of a name. So, it's a different thing.) -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´° ~{@nJX6X~} E-mail: danlee(a)informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- |