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Re:Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C by epo on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @07:01AM (#1890000)
Surely, that's his point, putting an ambiguity into a variable name is just asking for trouble, choose a better name.
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Re:Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C by TheNewAndy on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @07:27AM (#1890041)
The ambiguity isn't in the name on its own "God is nowhere". It is in the combination of that name, and a bad naming convention.

If you had a naming convention which prohibits vowels, then the identifier "shrt" is ambiguous because it could be "short" or "shirt". That doesn't mean that "short" is a bad name for an identifier.

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