Re: misnomers
Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
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Hi Bruno, > * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2017-06-06 22:55:04 +0200]: > >> What you are doing is _fishing_ stuff from stack and storing it into >> heap - how about "haul"? > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > "haul" means "pulling with force" or "steal".[1][2] And "capture" means "a seizing by force or stratagem". > It doesn't fit very well with the NESTED_IBLOCK/ITAGBODY_frame_info, > nest_fun, nest_env situation, IMO. I respectfully disagree. >> "Capture" fails the grep test above. > > Hardly: > $ grep -ri capture src/*.{d,lisp} | wc -l > 5 Don't cheat. ;-) $ grep -ri capture . | wc -l 79 > I think 5 random occurrences of the same word in the code are acceptable. I respectfully disagree. > I'm looking for a word for a building that consists of several > interconnected rows of cells. Gulags and KZs consisted of barracks, > not rows. Maybe "palace" is better than "prison"? You are looking for https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seiner ;-) Note that "capture" already has a meaning in the computer domain. Haul, seiner &c do not. I urge you to take the `grep -ri .` test more seriously. You are about to make the same mistake you made years ago when you commented your code in German and introduced gratuitous changes to C syntax. Thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1504 http://steingoldpsychology.com http://www.childpsy.net http://think-israel.org https://ffii.org http://honestreporting.com Never argue with an idiot, listeners may not be able to tell the difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel