Sorry, I think my response was sacrificing clarity for rantiness. I meant that everytime somebody refers to the value of controlling code size (like gruseom di

Sorry, I think my response was sacrificing clarity for rantiness. I meant that everytime somebody refers to the value of controlling code size (like gruseom did in this thread), we have to deal with the inevitable strawman of: int a = b + c; vs int hours = timesPerformed + hoursPerPeformance; But gruseom's comment has nothing whatsoever to do with short vs long variable names. tlrobinson interpreted right that codebase size should be measured in number of tokens. Measured in tokens, both examples above have identical size. (PG has also said this many many times with reference to arc.)