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From: Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
> Paul Bennett skrev:
> > I think I like single-character variable names, to be honest.
> We'll see
> > what happens.
>
> There are two problems with that:
> 1) you soon run out of single letters
Yes.
> 2) you run out of *meaningful* single letter abbreviations even
> sooner.
Yes.
> If V is "vowel" then you want the varnames for e.g.
> "rounded vowel" and "front vowel" to be VR and VF.
Yes, although with features, that could be V[+round] and V[+front]. I think that's
the notation I prefer reading.
I'll bear all your points in mind, though.
> And variable names should of course be begin with a $!
I'm leaning towards liking that as well. Using $ as the morpheme-break environment
would mean we would need some way to mark morpheme breaks in the corpus, which
is yucky.
Paul