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On 24 août 2013, at 12:47, pkx1...@gmail.com wrote: > On 2013/08/24 08:25:14, dak wrote: >> On 2013/08/24 08:05:13, mike7 wrote: >> > On 24 août 2013, at 10:18, mailto:lemzw...@googlemail.com wrote: >> > >> > > LGTM, except of using `surrogate' in the name. Given that the > stencil >> > > dimensions are actively overridden on request, I would like rather > like >> > > having `override'. For me, the word `surrogate' suggests > something >> > > passive. >> > > >> > > https://codereview.appspot.com/12957047/ >> > >> > The definition reads: > >> It doesn't matter what the definition reads. English has a live > vocabulary of >> over 150000 words and there is no need to use all of them in > identifiers. We >> want our identifier names to be boring and following our own > terminology >> elsewhere as well as that of other programs. > >> If you pick a non-standard word with slightly different connotations, > people >> will think that the slightly different connotations are important, > rather than >> that this is just playing randomization games with a thesaurus. > > Having to send highly technical responses to non-native English speakers > daily as part of my job, I do get Werner's point. Surrogate isn;t > immediately obvious unless you have a wide vocabulary. I don't know what > this fix does, but could we use a word like 'alternate' or 'replace' or > 'proxy' (assuming it is a function/command that has to take a value, and > 'replace' it temporarily before it puts it back - see? I told you I > didn't know what this does), or perhaps 'stand-in' or 'backup'. > > We had a classically educated programmer once that used to produce > beautifully composed 'event' messages and errors, however it just caused > a lot of confusion to our non-English customers (even some American ones > ;) ) that we went 'boring' as David so succinctly put it. > > https://codereview.appspot.com/12957047/ The stencil command takes the skyline of stencil X and uses it as a replacement for skyline Y. We could use replacement-skyline-stencil as the command. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel