[Jprogramming] wiki essay

[Devon McCormick]

The short answer is: don't do that.

If you want to use single letter names for throw-away, local temp
variables, that's fine but the point of a global is that it has some
importance and ubiquity.

I'm a big fan of terseness - e.g.
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/2009-08-11#TerserisBetter - but would
it really kill you to add a letter or two?  Not to mention the extra
difficulty of searching for single-letter names...

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Viktor Cerovski
<viktor.cerovski at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Raul Miller-4 wrote:
> >
> > I wrote up a wiki essay (or perhaps a rant) on some issues that come
> > up in the context of parsing J:
> > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Raul%20Miller/ParsingJ
> >
> > My suggestions there may not be ideal, but I sort of like them.
> >
> > --
> > Raul
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> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
> >
> >
> Leaving the question of style aside, there is one formal problem
> with the convention:  how would one interpret names consisting of
> a single capital letter (with or without trailing numbers): as nouns
> or adverbs?  Both naming schemes make sense.  For instance:
>
> I =: 1
> I1 =: /("1)
> I2 =: /("2)
> E =: &.>
>
> Also, some might prefer additionally to have something like:
>
> e=:1x1
>
> etc.
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