Re: using function names as variable names? Is it Justified?

From: Ingvar (ingvar_at_hexapodia.net)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 14:13:17 +0000

Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net> writes:

> Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<cobcfl$j2l$3@news.asu.edu>...
> >
[ SNIP ]
> >> I have seen a couple of discussions on this earlier, but don't you
> >> feel it is confusing and error prone to use such names as
> >> variables.
> > Some of us think rather than feel. Yes, it can be confusing to have
> > the same symbol refer to different things in the same vicinity. That
> > isn't a good enough reason to drive it out of the language.
> > It's the very essence of a symbol that it can be overloaded with
> > contexts that give it a different meaning.
[ SNIP ]
> > The confusion here could be only in the mind of someone who doesn't
> > understand the different meaning of the first position of an
> > expression.
> >
> Then you may as well say that syntax highlighting is not needed.

I, personally, find it more distracting than helpful. Especially with
(some) programming languages, where existing highlighting methods
(occasionallY) produce incorrectly-hightlighted code.

I always switch highlighting off, as soon as I figure out how to, in
all editors I work with.

//Ingvar 

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