On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com> wrote:
2018-05-04 19:45 GMT+03:00 Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com>:
Ramon Leon-5 wrote
And my point made; I don't even know what that means.
Ha ha, I googled it and even after seeing the definition still didn't understand - we must be getting old ;-)
Regarding the use of acronyms - while I agree with you as a general principle, I wonder about this case. Since the argument IIUC is that "a general user won't know the domain well enough to understand the acronym", would they understand "abstractSyntaxTree"?!
Now I am wonder: is it really correct to call syntax tree as abstract when it is really implemented? AST is very known term but now when I read it word by word I have such questions :).
In computer science, an *abstract syntax tree* (AST), or just *syntax tree*, is a *tree* representation of the *abstract syntactic *structure of source code written in a programming language. [Wikipedia]
That, to me, is as opaque as the acronym for one not acquainted with the domain, and may buy us little at the cost of a good amount of extra typing. Maybe keep the acronym and add a good method commentâ¦
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