On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:44:29 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote
At 03:28 PM 2/18/2004, Peter Dimov wrote:
I think it's a fuzzy line in the sand, so all I really know is that I do >> like "ref" and don't like "fs" :) > >Yes, is seems that it comes down to personal preference. Dave likes to say >filesystem, and you don't like fs...
I never liked either. "filesystem" is too long and sounds affected. "fs" is too short and non-specific. Those names just escaped because nothing better surfaced.
FWIW (irony here), most of the perl modules dealing with files use either File or Filesys. My guess is that it is impossible to make everyone happy here but personally I'm fine with filesystem. But I'm with Dave on prefering spelled out names in general. Abbreviation is a hard habit to break, but overall it just obscures code IME (that's in my experience ;-) Jeff