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Define “Huffmancoding” #7

Closed AlexDaniel closed 6 years ago

AlexDaniel commented 6 years ago

In Introducing-Perl6-Brochure:

Huffmancoding of names allows for better readability

As far as I know, the idea of “Huffman coding” (being used for language design) is only present in perl 6 community, and the wikipedia page does not seem to suggest that the concept can be applied to something else. So to someone who is just being introduced to perl 6 that point is probably confusing.

ajs commented 6 years ago

A simple parenthetical could address this. For example, "Huffmancoding of names (using names whose brevity is roughly proportional to frequency of use) allows for better readability."