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Re: New package: resist!
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Alexandre Garreau |
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Re: New package: resist! |
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Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:54:19 +0100 |
Le vendredo, 10-a de decembro 2021, 21-a horo kaj 34:38 CET Philip
Kaludercic a écrit :
> Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:
> >> persist: it’s shorter, so shorter identifiers
> >>
> >> maybe even prsist
> >
> > Sounds good. I’ll do prsist then.
>
> (I know this is bike-shedding, but...) What is the point of leaving out
> a single vowel? Doesn't using a "real" or at least pronounceable word
> avoid typos and make it easier to remember?
if you spell out the R like p’R-sist, you get the pronounciation of
persist. Plus it’s a common tradition to leave out some vowels to make
identifiers smaller, such as cnt, ptr, itr (notice there’s still a vowel),
etc.
prsst could be possible, but the double s is weird, it’s less
recognizable, and prsist looks more like “resist” than “persist” (there’s
no “e” in the “wrong” place).
I didn’t think of what Qiantan said about completion and verb meaning, but
it looks sound to me. Originally I wasn’t so convinced because “persist”
looked at least a little more beautiful, I proposed it because I thought
it since “resist” was suggested to be change into something more
meaningful.
- Re: New package: resist!, (continued)
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/12/10
- RE: [External] : Re: New package: resist!, Drew Adams, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Alexandre Garreau, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!,
Alexandre Garreau <=
- RE: [External] : Re: New package: resist!, Drew Adams, 2021/12/10
- Re: [External] : Re: New package: resist!, Richard Stallman, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Joost Kremers, 2021/12/10
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Tassilo Horn, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Alexandre Garreau, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Qiantan Hong, 2021/12/11
- Re: New package: resist!, Alexandre Garreau, 2021/12/11