Timeline for Is there an excuse for short variable names?
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 18:07 | comment | added | eyelidlessness | We don't read words as a set of characters, we read them as shapes and resolve details conditionally when at-a-glance comprehension fails. The length a word must be to take longer to read is far greater than 4 characters, and we're able to mentally process camelCase and other means of breaking up variable name words as word boundaries. I doubt a reading test would bear out a claim that shorter names improve reading comprehension speed; instead, by removing recognizable words, there will be a speed decrease until the new words are assimilated (which you yourself point out). | |
| S Nov 22, 2012 at 11:07 | history | answered | Amol | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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