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Re: Am I stupid? [message #25761 is a reply to message #25702]

Wed, 11 July 2001 15:48

david[2]
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Registered: June 2001

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William Clodius writes:

> However the current rules are also error prone. Single character typos are common, and the allowal of
> abbreviations means that arguments that disagree in more than one character, can still be confused with one
> another by a single character mistake. In particular I am prone to accidently converting singulars to plurals
> and vice versa. In this case, I suspect that I would frequently type TIMES=37 and have it interpretted as
> TIMESTEP when I meant TIME.

I would be *extremely* happy if absolutely NO
keyword abbreviations were allowed. At least I
would be able to read and understand code that
I was looking at. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Am I stupid? By: colinr on Tue, 10 July 2001 06:29
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Thu, 12 July 2001 10:56
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Thu, 12 July 2001 10:49
		Re: Am I stupid? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 12 July 2001 08:01
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		Re: Am I stupid? By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 11 July 2001 22:06
		Re: Am I stupid? By: m.hadfield on Wed, 11 July 2001 19:20
		Re: Am I stupid? By: david[2] on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:48
		Re: Am I stupid? By: James Kuyper on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:04
		Re: Am I stupid? By: William Clodius on Wed, 11 July 2001 15:23
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		Re: Am I stupid? By: gorkom on Wed, 11 July 2001 14:04
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