Re: loops
Re: loops
- Subject: Re: loops
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:49:07 -0500
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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:11:24 -0700
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From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: loops
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at 2002 02 14, 12:09 -0700, they whom i call Marc K. Myers wrote:
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> [...] The i is a "loop variable". Each
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> ... It would
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> be clearer if more descriptive variable names were used and would work
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> exactly the same way:
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hearty agreement with that!
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though i'm sure i've done it myself, it's really poor
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practice to litter teaching examples with meaningless
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variable names, especially in a supposedly
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"self-explanatory" language like AppleScript.
I'm afraid that I cannot agree with that, (at least not in all
situations). Look, if you're learning a language for the first
time, obviously you need a lot of help with figuring out what is
what, but once you've developed even a little bit, long and
descriptive variable names can actually get in the way of
quickly understanding a simple algorithm.
Now a days, when I read something like:
repeat with an_incrementing_variable from initial_value to ...
I'm often afraid that my head might explode.
{ Arthur J. Knapp, of <
http://www.STELLARViSIONs.com>
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try
<
http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/scripting/Jcode_osax.html>
on error number -128
end try
}
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