Warp wrote:

>   That's because operators are part of the language definition itself,
> which every programmer of that language should know by heart.

>   However. when you write a program and create your *own* unique types,
> variables and function names, it's something nobody else has ever seen
> before. It's something completely new to them. Thus the situation changes
> completely: Now brevity becomes obfuscation.

My point is that sometimes having shorter names reveals the structure of 
what you're trying to do more clearly. (This is why mathematicians use a 
bazillion weird symbols for communication.)

But sure, I take your point that in the usual case, you want names that 
are going to make sense to people and be reasonably descripting without 
being too huge...

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