Grumble about too strict an attitude about backward compatibility...

[laotseu]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> What's the Python connection?  Other than a reminder not to get to
>     >> slavish about backward compatibility, I note that these same function
>     >> names will then go on to pollute the Python namespace because all
>     >> this Fortran code is automatically wrapped using f2py.
> 
>     laotseu> Well, that may be true, but the chances of a name collision are
>     laotseu> pretty low IMHO...
> 
> Name collisions weren't what I was getting at.  Python allows essentially
> unlimited identifier lengths, but people manipulating these functions from
> Python code still have to use the cryptic 4-6 character names.  Perhaps f2py
> allows mapping such names to something more meaningful.  (One can hope. ;-)
> 
> Skip
> 
> 
> 

mapping such names to something more meaningful ?

aFunctionWithAnySensibleName = lpni
aFunctionWithAnotherSensibleName = klvna

if aFunctionWithAnySensibleName(andFarTooMuchLettersInIt):
     resutl = aFunctionWithAnotherSensibleName(andAlsoManyUselessLetters)


Like this ?-)

laotseu
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