8 Dec
2005
8 Dec
'05
4:31 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Joeri van Ruth wrote:
[...]
But then, I would prefer "byte" (gasp), "word" (shiver) and "long" (shock horror) over "bte", "wrd" and "long" anyway.
[...]
I second this. Is there some (technical) reason to use only three character identifiers instead of readable four character ones?
(We could spent those couple of characters here that we saved on replacing all those "de_NO_project" and the like... ;-) )
Jens
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