[Numpy-discussion] Don't like the short names like lstsq and irefft (original) (raw)
Paul Dubois pfdubois at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 00:47:20 EDT 2006
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Bertrand Meyer has pointed out that abbreviations are usually a bad idea. The problem is that abbreviations are not unique so you can't guess what they are. Whereas (modulo some library-wide conventions about names) linearLeastSquares or the like is unique. At the very least you're more likely to get it right.
Any python user can abbreviate anything they like any way they like for interactive work.
And yes, I think FFT is a name. (:-> Exception for that. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/attachments/20060614/e8dab5ef/attachment.html>
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