RE: procedure parameter names

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > As for the rest of your append ... I'll just hold my tongue.


> What a cop out. I was counting on you, Simon. I suspect it's the short
> names or the use of data structures and I don't like it either but I
> have to live with it. If long parameter names were permitted, shouldn't
> they still conform to some kind of naming convention?


I'm curious why someone who is about the task of setting standards would
declare "I have to live with it."  Doesn't the practice of standards setting
involve/include not living with the past standards?

Dennis Lovelady
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