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Well, if you need to scroll to read the whole name, that's indicative of some deeper problems, alright. That's kind of what I was getting at, just that the code also needs to fit in my head. Use of verbose identifiers might be linked to verbose code and that might or might not be harder to follow. There is a sweet spot.

I am just defending that I don't know what car means mainly because I don't know LISP and I refuse to read documentation, but out of lazyness mind you.

On a related note, I often discover that trying to shorten text, sentences become a lot clearer when they are less verbose. Compare that to: On a related note, I often notice shorter sentences are clearer. Compare that to the overly terse Short Sentence Clarity!