Java By Comparison

Avoid Abbreviations

class Logbook {
    static final Path DIR = Paths.get("/var/log");
    static final Path CSV = DIR.resolve("stats.csv");
    static final String GLOB = "*.log";

    void createStats() throws IOException {
        try (DirectoryStream<Path> dirStr =
                     Files.newDirectoryStream(DIR, GLOB);
             BufferedWriter bufW = Files.newBufferedWriter(CSV)) {
            for (Path lFile : dirStr) {
                String csvLn = String.format("%s,%d,%s",
                        lFile,
                        Files.size(lFile),
                        Files.getLastModifiedTime(lFile));
                bufW.write(csvLn);
                bufW.newLine();
            }
        }
    }
}

Abbreviations are one step up from single-letter names, and our world is full of them: ASAP, FYI, TGIF, AFK, NASA, FBI, CYA, NYPD, and so on. Many programmers like to create their ...