[ricw]

Not a fan of this. You save a couple of chars and massively decrease legibility. Anyone new to the project will find it way harder to understand. Instead of abbreviation hell, just spell it out and move on. Not worth saving a couple of characters.

[maxander]

True masters of naming make sure to use variable names that are long but unambiguous after the first several characters, so that with tab-completion you get the best of both worlds.