| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Deane Yang | Sent: 08 June 2006 17:01 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] [review] pqs | | Andy Little wrote: | | > It might even be possible to abbreviate it and keep the sense: | > | > velocity:: m_p_s | > velocity:: mi_p_h | > acceleration::m_p_s2; | > reciprocal_time::p_s; | > reciprocal_mass::p_kg; | > mass_flow::kg_p_s; | > | | Please, less abbreviations. You, as the inventor of the | abbreviations, | might find them easy to keep track of, but I, with an aging | and rapidly | deteriorating memory, find them too cryptic. The elimination | of cryptic | abbreviated names is for me one of the major advances in programming. Agree strongly. Am thinking of founding a scoiety for the Abolition of TLAs. You can guess its acronym ;-)) Type once, read many, so DON'T abbreviate. Yours senility... Paul --- Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539561830 & SMS, Mobile +44 7714 330204 & SMS pbristow@hetp.u-net.com