Timeline for How to abbreviate context names?
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| Jul 15, 2012 at 14:34 | comment | added | alancalvitti | They had to make it a 2-hand shortcut ah? | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 14:27 | comment | added | rm -rf♦ |
@alancalvitti Are you aware of the Cmd-K shortcut (on a mac) to autocomplete? So Dim Cmd-K will give you Dimension
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| Jul 15, 2012 at 14:12 | comment | added | alancalvitti | In exploratory data analysis there's much testing of properties of data structures that is then deleted, so not only do I abbreviate, eg, Dimension, but I use lower case 'dim' because speed is of the essence. What do you think of that? | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | murray | My long experience with such things, going back to APL, is that it takes more time to recall the correct terse, cryptic abbreviation than to type a longer but descriptive name. Of course this is predicated upon good touch-typing skills. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 6:13 | comment | added | alancalvitti | @murray, I aint got time for that | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 6:04 | answer | added | Mr.Wizard | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 4:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/224361882092437507 | ||
| Jul 15, 2012 at 0:00 | comment | added | murray | One of the actual strengths of the Mathematica language design is that it uses spelled-out, meaningful names rather than verbose but possibly cryptic names. | |
| Jul 14, 2012 at 21:39 | vote | accept | alancalvitti | ||
| Jul 14, 2012 at 21:39 | history | edited | rm -rf♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 5 characters in body; edited tags; edited title
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| Jul 14, 2012 at 21:25 | answer | added | Rojo | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 14, 2012 at 21:23 | history | asked | alancalvitti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |