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Oh dear, I find those single-letter variable names are quite counter-productive in making the code easy for someone unfamiliar to the project to understand...
by klingonopera 7y ago
Oh dear, I find those single-letter variable names are quite counter-productive in making the code easy for someone unfamiliar to the project to understand...
- airstrike 7y agoYeah, I'm way out of my comfort zone here but I found the choice of n and N pretty off-putting
- klingonopera 7y agoA typo is only a (sticky) shift away, and not even obvious! EDIT: ...and compiles, too!
- Gene_Parmesan 7y agoThey are like that because they essentially transliterated the original Pascal code from the paper. Leaving the variable names as they were in the paper allows for the paper to act as documentation for the code, so to speak.