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From: | Graham Percival |
Subject: | Re: GDP: identifiers = ick |
Date: | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:44:45 -0700 |
User-agent: | Icedove 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070607) |
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
Identifier isn't a good term either, that is the term for the lexical function ("an identifier a sequence of letters"). Perhaps we should just 'variable'
I thought that "macro" was safer, since we can't redefine variables. But I agree with your points against "macro".
...Intuitively, forgetting about any computer or math courses, I find myself wanting to call them "variables". If somebody is trying to cause trouble, they might complain that they can't change their values, but I'll stick a sentence in the docs to say that you can't do that.
Anybody with objections to "variable" has until next Wed to voice them. Cheers, - Graham
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