Are short abbreviated method/function names that don't use full words bad practice or a matter of style?
- by Alb
Is there nowadays any case for brevity over clarity with method names?
Tonight I came across the Python method repr() which seems like a bad name for a method to me. It's not an English word. It apparently is an abbreviation of 'representation' and even if you can deduce that, it still doesn't tell you what the method does.
A good method name is…