Add JS guideline: "Avoid abbreviations"
mcmire opened this issue · comments
Elliot Winkler commented
Abbreviations are tempting because they make it easier for the writer. But code should be written for the reader, not the writer (to paraphrase some quote I read that I'll need to find). Generally, abbreviations make code harder to read, and can also lead to ambiguity. There are some exceptions such as repo
, however, which are generally always understand to mean "repository".