unicode as valid naming symbols

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Wed Apr 2 01:55:53 EDT 2014


Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>:

> On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 8:28:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> In scheme, in a named-let, the name
>> chosen was very often 'loop'
>
> Umm... I see from your prime number example that there are nested
> loops in which sometimes you restart the inner and sometimes the
> outer. So you could not possibly call both of them 'loop' :-).

Correct. I could call them "inner" and "outer". After all, the code uses
variables like "i", "c" and "n".

However, it doesn't hurt to use variable/function/loop names that convey
meaning.


Marko



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