Edward wrote:
I think we all agree on having telling names. I think we do disagree on whether "fs" (and similar abridged variants) are indicative as to their meaning. And, some people are dogmatically against abridged lexemes. I assume some of those people live in the United States of America, whereas I live in the U.S.
Actually if namespace identifiers in C++ could have a dot ( '.' ) in them and if it was normally acceptable to use all uppercase letters in namespace identifiers ( usually reserved for macros ), I would be more likely to agree with you. Now imagine if 'U.S.' was 'us', don't you think such a short abbreviation could cause problems in normal use, and the United States would be more understandable ?
No, I do not think so. You must remember the context. If the abbreviation "us" or "US" was used in a political or geographical setting, it would be quite intuitive. Likewise would "fs" in the context of sowftare solutions. Forms like "algo", "dir", "jmp" and "enum" are quite intuitive for a software engineer. Additionally, I am glad the U.S. actually *is* "us" as far as localization issues are concerned. Noone misunderstands the lexeme "us-EN" in our field. /David