Very good point: long variable names make it harder to spot when they've been mistyped. Even worse, some long variables become other long variables when mistyp

Very good point: long variable names make it harder to spot when they've been mistyped. Even worse, some long variables become other long variables when mistyped in just the right characters. On the other hand, in long variable names, the excess of characters provides redundancy, which makes it easier to error-correct. The parent post is riddled with errors that would halt a compiler, but many humans would not even notice them.