"IX" as shorthand for "Interface"

[Eric Snow]

I'm writing a bunch of classes that have "Interface" in the name and
find that the length of the subsequent names is starting to get in the
way of readability (I don't really care about saving keystrokes). Is
"IX" conventional enough to use in place of "Interface" in a class
name? Thanks!

-eric

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

I'm writing a bunch of classes that have "Interface" in the name and
find that the length of the subsequent names is starting to get in the
way of readability (I don't really care about saving keystrokes). Is
"IX" conventional enough to use in place of "Interface" in a class
name? Thanks!

I've never seen or heard of "IX" as an abbreviation for Interface. Apart
from the fact that they both start with I, what is the connection? Is the
fact that "IX" is pronounced Icks meant as commentary about Interfaces
perhaps?

 

[Nobody]

I'm writing a bunch of classes that have "Interface" in the name and
find that the length of the subsequent names is starting to get in the
way of readability (I don't really care about saving keystrokes). Is
"IX" conventional enough to use in place of "Interface" in a class
name? Thanks!

I've only ever seen "ix" used as an abbreviation for "index".

The common abbrevations for "interface" are "if" (e.g. the Linux
networking headers), "iface", or the "I" prefix in Windows' COM.