[yongjik]

strpbrk() is a bit too short for my taste, but I'll choose that over FindFirstOccurrenceOfAnyCharIn(). There's "long and descriptive", and there's "too long".

Think about it: there's a reason why human languages are filled with pronouns, because if you use the full name for everything, communication will soon become tedious and it will become actually harder to understand.

Any desire for a long and descriptive name should be tempered with a matching desire for conciseness. Otherwise you end up with names like MaybeUpdateDisplayParameterListForValidation. Throw twenty of these names onto a screen, and I have no idea what the hell is going on: I can't even figure out which names are the same at a glance.

[int_19h]

Human languages also solve it by taking into account context - and so do PLs. For example, if your language can overload functions based on argument types, then "Char" is already redundant.

[kiruwa]

The problem with these examples of verbose functions is not that they're verbose, it's either that they encompass too much functionality or poorly describe what they do.