From: mgarriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-08-23T01:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Wrapping ENV

Lothar Scholz wrote:

>>If you like things much more readable and you never count the time for
>>typing I would suggest this code:
>>
>>THE_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES = ENV
>>    
>>
>
>verbosity != readable.
>
>In fact your suggestion is much less readable. The normal mind can put
>his focus on 7 items at a time. where '_' separated parts of the identifier
>counts as one. If this variable is used in a statement is is very
>likely that it will increase the number of tokens over this magic
>number.
>

It was a joke.  You snipped off the :)!!  Dang, misquoted again.