RE: Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )
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- Subject: [mg69223] RE: [mg69204] Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes and I think that Stephen Wolfram definitely made the correct choice in going for longer names. With command completion they can also usually be entered very quickly. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Joseph Gwinn [mailto:JoeGwinn at comcast.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net I went through a similar drama, and went to the other extreme: All my variable names are now long-winded. For instance, I would use something like FiberRadius, Vparam, SectionArea, Volume, and ThermalConductivity. The initial caps do no harm so long as the name is long enough that collisions are very unlikely to impossible, assuming that the vocabulary in one's problem domain are unlike those in the innards of Mathematica. This is basically the approach Wolfram recommends in The Holy Tome, and he built Mathematica to follow this approach. So, I went with the flow. Joe Gwinn