I mean it's page one in any "Good programmer" book: use descriptive names. Even programming has lots of this sort of shorthand going on going on. You probably

I mean it's page one in any "Good programmer" book: use descriptive names. Even programming has lots of this sort of shorthand going on going on. You probably use several of them every day without really thinking about it. We write "def" instead of "define", "struct" instead of "structure", "var" instead of "variable", "mut" instead of "mutable", "puts" instead of "put_string", "std::vector" instead of "standard_library::vector", and you can probably think of 50 more if you put your mind to it. I'm sure even you have named a loop index variable "i" or "idx" at some point. Are you also advocating we change all of these to make them more descriptive?