"IX" as shorthand for "Interface"

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Sun Oct 9 06:12:59 EDT 2011


On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:21:02 -0600, Eric Snow wrote:

> I'm writing a bunch of classes that have "Interface" in the name and
> find that the length of the subsequent names is starting to get in the
> way of readability (I don't really care about saving keystrokes).  Is
> "IX" conventional enough to use in place of "Interface" in a class
> name?  Thanks!

I've only ever seen "ix" used as an abbreviation for "index".

The common abbrevations for "interface" are "if" (e.g. the Linux
networking headers), "iface", or the "I" prefix in Windows' COM.




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