[racket] `def' ?

i didn't assert that word length has nothing to do with readability, just
that word frequency has more impact on reading time than word length.

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Luke Vilnis <lvilnis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can only speak for myself but I think it's a bit much to assert that
> word length has nothing to do with readability. Heck, maybe that's even
> true for you, but not for everyone. I have certainly felt it to be an
> issue. If the "define" keyword was 50 letters long it would definitely have
> an impact on my ability to read code - it seems to be an issue of degree,
> not existence.
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:26 PM, ozzloy-racket-users <
> ozzloy+users_racket-lang_org at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> am i the only one that thinks not having abbreviated names for anything
>> is good?
>> i like not having "def".  especially if it's going to be redundant.
>> i see this as a slippery slope i don't want to go down.
>> it annoys me when switching to other languages to have to ask: which way
>> of shortening "function" does this language go with?  was it "fn"? maybe
>> "fun"?
>> if the language has a strict policy of not using short versions of words,
>> i don't have to guess.
>>
>> as for "def" being easier to read than "define", that's not true.  word
>> frequency has more impact on reading time than word length for normal
>> reading.  having more aliases makes both less frequent, so adding "def"
>> could plausibly make reading both take longer.  most people read whole
>> words at a time, rather than letter-by-letter.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> There is always pretty mode in Emacs.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ray Racine <ray.racine at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > FYI for those who may not know.  Racket supports λ as an alias for
>>> lambda.
>>> >  ctrl-\ in DrRacket.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Nikita B. Zuev <nikitazu at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> +1 for `def' as alias for `define'.
>>> >> May I also suggest `fun' for `lambda' alias?
>>> >> Three letter names are the best =)
>>> >>
>>> >> (well one can always do it with require rename-in)
>>> >>
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