Calling things by their name.

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Mon Dec 13 18:47:47 UTC 1999


Sebastien Thoos wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A question ....
> 
> Why giving bizare names to parameters,
> when I say bizare I mean t1, t2, t3.

Which method do you mean?

A long time ago I've seen such names if the Smalltalk (VW) could not
access the sources file...

> 
> It would be much more readable and make more
> sense to have a method called, for example:
> 
> put: anObject at: aPosition
> 

It's the normal Smalltalk style to use _long_ names...

Greetings,

Stephan

> I think we still can change things...
> 
> SÈbastien.

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Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
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