[Not Urgent, Stylistic] Rename length to len.

[Paalon]

Julia Base exports the name length thus rename for disambiguation.

[kescobo]

I'd marginally prefer something more descriptive rather than less - like out_length or str_length or something.

Here, where it's just a lot of find-replace, and it's going to be read a lot more than it's written, trying to be economical at the expense of readability strikes me as a mistake

[Paalon]

I read src/buffer_input.jl and src/scanner.jl many times. A few days after sending this pull request, I noticed a few things. The variable name length is used as the 2 following meanings:

1. the position of the current peeking character (0-based)
2. the length of the processed token

In Julia, I think this variable should mean 1-based position, and the name should be pos and len = pos - 1. The name position is also exported by Julia base thus pos will be fit. If longer name is desired, character_position may be good but I don't think the longer name is required because it is obvious that we are processing a stream and what pos or len means.

Anyway, this PR is not urgent. It's okay to think about this later.

[kescobo]

I don't think the longer name is required because it is obvious

I always worry about statements like this - I have on many occasions thought "this will be obvious to future me", and then come back after a couple of months it more and have no idea what's going on.

You're probably right that pos and len are obvious, but even something like charpos is a bit more explicit, and it would make me feel better 😉 .

[GunnarFarneback]

In Julia, I think this variable should mean 1-based position

For what it's worth, position, seek and other stream operations in Julia follow the convention to consider the position as a 0-based offset from the start of the file.