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Article #620683Re: Nostalgia
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:29
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:29
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On Mon, 2018-02-26, Peter Flass wrote: > J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 26 Feb 2018 06:43:24 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2018-02-26, Dan Espen wrote: ... >>>> In the above case, the code still needs a comment >>>> but it should be something like: >>>> >>>> x=5; # Max supported fingers >>> >>> max_supported_fingers=5; # Nothing more to say >> >> But a lot more to type and that style tends to be hard to >> read--operators get lost in the visual noise. > > Also assumes you're writing in a language that supports identifiers longer > than 8 characters. I know this is afc, but surely we were discussing programming style choices now, rather than 40 years ago? (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the 1980s.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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