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I agree. I was noticing that it really read "odd" to me, like someone was trying to be clever and terse. I don't think saving a few keystrokes is worth the decr

by gtaylor 15y ago

I agree. I was noticing that it really read "odd" to me, like someone was trying to be clever and terse. I don't think saving a few keystrokes is worth the decrease in cosmetic appearance/readability. Indeed, I inferred what those keywords meant, but, yuck.

queensnake 15y ago
This (my) comment is just noise, but I support the choice of short keywords - it helps in seeing them iconically. It's not the typing, though I think that helps too, but the reading - a long word, you have to /read/. A short sequence of chars is an instantly, right-brain recognized pattern. For that same reason I much prefer '0' to 'NULL' for ptrs in C/C++ to (I'm talking about visually, not type safety).