Stewart, Robert wrote:
Max Sobolev wrote:
it's a mistake to break with a well-established convention that works just on principle. The chance that your alternative will work better in practice is extremely low. I think that preference in /*hs/ names is some sort of (old) harmful habit, we must go away from this naming style. 50 years ago GOTO statement also were considered as excellent
On 21.03.2011 21:06, Dave Abrahams wrote: programming instrument. (progress isn't stayed)
There is nothing remotely harmful in "lhs" or "rhs."
Even if my naming convention isn't sufficient, this is not means that yours is good enough :) to use it (In general, we must formulate a new naming convention for binary operator arguments.)
No, we mustn't. You may prefer to see it happen, but there's no "must" here.
This may well be a language barrier, but I find "left hand side" and "right hand side" to be precisely the right names for the expressions surrounding a binary operator and "lhs" and "rhs" to be perfectly recognizable and readable abbreviations for those names.
+1 IIRC, these terms were well defined and used in basic linear algebra and numerical methods college courses. Jeff