Common abbreviations in software development

Programming language development:

• decl: declaration
• stmt: statement
• expr: expression
• ivar: instance variable
• var: variable
• ref: reference
• def: definition

General:

• fn
  • function
  • filename
• dir
  • direction
  • directory

References

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