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I think they may have simple misunderstood what your example was about (G, not asm(...)).

On the other hand their criticism contradicts their earlier point about widely used public/stdlib function names best having short names.



Widely used libraries have one more constraint, in that they will always be used a lot, but they'll never be the most used things on any code base.

As a consequence, they shouldn't use very short names. They should let the 1-3 letter names available for local code. (But there are exceptions, of course. There always are.)




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