Re: Code cleanup -- inconsistent "width" and "height" etc.

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Things measured in columns/lines are named as _CANON_WIDTH and
> _CANON_HEIGHT resp., while things measured in pixels are named as
> _PIXEL_WIDTH and _PIXEL_HEIGHT resp.

`_CANON_WIDTH' sounds annoyingly redundant; if that's the canonical
representation, then just use `_WIDTH,' and save additional adjectives
for exceptional cases.

Adding unnecessary verbosity simply makes the code more tedious (and
thus harder) to read.

[For the same reason, such adjectives _shouldn't_ be used in cases where
only one representation is possible by definition; e.g., the width of a
character in a font is obviously in pixels, so adding `_pixel' would be
unnecessary and harmful.]

-Miles
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