May 9, 2018
11:57 a.m.
Richard O'Keefe wrote
First, my message was *defending* most of the short names that someone else was attacking. For the record, I am *far* more worried about the fragility of typical Smalltalk code than I am about method names, which are generally pretty good.
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If by "someone else" you mean me, I was obviously sarcastic. If you are OK with GCD, LCM, ULP and other abbreviations, why get rid of AST? It's well-known and unambigous term in respective area, that is also usually used as identifier in other programming languages and libraries (e.g. ast module in Python, Microsoft.FSharp.Compiler.Ast module in F#). -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html