Tips for golfing in The Shakespeare Programming Language What general tips do you have for golfing in The Shakespeare Programming Language? I'm looking for ideas which can be applied to code-golf problems and which are also at least somewhat specific to SPL (e.g. "remove comments" is not an answer).

Please post one tip per answer.
(Well... since this is my adopted language 1, I feel like I'm obliged to add something here)

Use short variable names

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty standard to code-golf, you just use one-letter-length variable names, no news here. Or is there? Because the chaps that created SPL were wacky enough not to allow any name for their language's variables: they must come from Shakesperian plays which, in terms of character length, is a pain in the royal tush - but, if you're coding in SPL, you already know that. So, my advice would be to use characters with short names, like Ajax, Ford, Page or Puck, instead of The Archbishop of Canterbury, per instance.

That's all I got, I'm afraid.


1- since my Java skills are equivalent of those of a newborn.