[fetter-devel] belated mentoring

[Kenny Tilton]

Just noticed foreign-alloc (while looking for foreign-allocate <g>), 
which reminds me of Tilton's Law of Abbreviation: Only abbreviate names 
(a) longer than six characters (b) where a reasonable abbreviation saves 
more than half the characters. Exceptions are made where a well-known 
abbreviation exists, such as serial-no instead of serial-number (number 
having only six characters).

The nice thing about a strict abbreviations rule is the elimination of 
coding anxiety / guesswork / aproposing.

-- 
Kenny

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