Alexander Klenin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 22:02, Mattias Gaertner > <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de> wrote: > >>> A few questions/suggestions for improvement: >>> 1) Where did the name came from? It is totally meaningless for me. >>> >> See http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/figure?view=uk >> > > Hm. I'll quote that: > >> figure, noun: >> 1 a number or numerical symbol. >> 2 an amount of money. >> 3 a person’s bodily shape, especially that of a woman. >> 4 a person seen indistinctly. >> 5 an artistic representation of a human or animal form. >> 6 a shape defined by one or more lines. >> 7 a diagram or illustrative drawing. >> 8 (Music) a short succession of notes producing a single impression. >> > > Not one meaning correspond to 'a hint about possible problem in the code'. > Hm, while some of them probably are most likely to be used to find possible issues, there is no need to see them as an "problem indicator" only. So point 1 is "correct" as they are a collecion of numbers "figures"
Still, maybe they would be better named as "statistics"? (maybe "analytics" ?) >>> Maybe 'Stylistic notes' or 'Style' or something along these lines? >>> >> Not all are about style. >> > > At least it will give user a vague idea what it is ;-) > How about simply 'hints'? > > _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus