This list is really useful! One more to add:
<: ... has also been proposed Rick On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote: > Experiment: I’ve written down the proposals that have been made so far, to > reduce the circles we are going in. Let me know of any corrections or > additions I should make. > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apu8J_NsHwGGdHRtTThMZWdocy1ad2ZCaktpVVdPWEE > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 18:30 , Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote: > > > > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Herby Vojčík wrote: > > > >> > >> P.P.S.: I don't know what 'beget' means (I know I can find it, just to > illustrate it's not a commonly known word). > > > > I've had a concern about the possible impact of keyword choice on > non-native English speakers who are trying to learn or use the language. > Presumably, that is (or will be) the majority of ES developers. > > > > Being a native English speaker, I don't have any direct experience with > this (for ES ior other PLs). But we do have non-native speakers on this > list and specific feed back from them would be interesting. However, I > suspect that the non-native English followers of this list are probably, on > average, much more fluent than the average non-natiive English web/Es > developer. > > > > If you don't know the word, is it easier to learn a new symbol (eg <|) > or a new keyword (eg beget)? Long term, does it make any cognitive > difference? > > > > Allen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > es-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- > Dr. Axel Rauschmayer > a...@rauschma.de > > home: rauschma.de > twitter: twitter.com/rauschma > blog: 2ality.com > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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