EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 4.2.5
Page no. : | 4-6
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Comment : | In respect to the requirement in item (c), "All single-character names are forbidden except those for variables used as loop indexes.", the variable names ‘x’ and ‘y’ are perfectly reasonable (and normal) variable names for coordinates. However with the current language of this requirement , if they are not loop indexes, they are therefore disallowed. There is nothing wrong with single character names so long as their scope is small and their purpose is commented where not obvious. Proposed change: Remove the language "All single-character names are forbidden except those for variables used as loop indexes. "