From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Code cleanup -- inconsistent "width" and "height" etc.
Date: 10 Apr 2003 10:32:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo65pnqgqv.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xhe97dsr3.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Things measured in columns/lines are named as _CANON_WIDTH and
> _CANON_HEIGHT resp., while things measured in pixels are named as
> _PIXEL_WIDTH and _PIXEL_HEIGHT resp.
`_CANON_WIDTH' sounds annoyingly redundant; if that's the canonical
representation, then just use `_WIDTH,' and save additional adjectives
for exceptional cases.
Adding unnecessary verbosity simply makes the code more tedious (and
thus harder) to read.
[For the same reason, such adjectives _shouldn't_ be used in cases where
only one representation is possible by definition; e.g., the width of a
character in a font is obviously in pixels, so adding `_pixel' would be
unnecessary and harmful.]
-Miles
--
Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-10 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 1:51 Code cleanup -- inconsistent "width" and "height" etc Kim F. Storm
2003-04-10 0:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-10 1:32 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-04-10 13:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-04-10 12:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 0:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-04-10 23:27 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-11 0:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 23:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-12 2:19 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-11 8:51 ` Richard Stallman
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