It reduces verbosity and makes up for terser code, easier to read and modify. In terms of making the code terser, changes were relatively minor. Tags can be replaced with delimiter strings, for a terser markup, via the SHORTREF feature. However, in more recent versions of the ABAP language, a terser style is possible. Its entries are terser than those of the Chinese volumes, particularly Part I, Volume 1. Terser coding speeds compilation very slightly, as fewer symbols need to be processed.