I prefer backward compatibility to PC too, but since we're on the topic, My personal PC advocacy is against the term blacklist always being associated with some "negatives".
A search of CRAN found several packages using this term. I advocate using a more descriptive term, such. Falsepositivelist truenegativelist forbiddenlist etc.. Package maintainers can keep the old term, but please mark it as deprecated. Thank you for your consideration. Hugues Sicotte -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Rolf Turner Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:10 PM To: Benjamin Lang Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R] The "--slave" option On 18/09/19 6:00 PM, Benjamin Lang wrote: > Dear R project, > > I have a very simple question: > > How, in late 2019, is there an option called "--slave" to "make R run as > quietly as possible"? > > Let me reiterate that it is 2019, i.e. "The Future", rather than 1970 when > R was presumably developed, based on its atrocious syntax, documentation > and usability (I think I only need to say "NaN", "NULL", and "NA"). > > This is a disgrace and it should have been addressed one or two decades > ago. Why not just "--quiet"? > > Please do not mention "backwards compatibility". Personally I much prefer backwards compatibility to political correctness. > For the historically > inclined, it does not make much of a difference whether the term evokes the > Roman, Greek, American or modern kind of slavery for you: it is as > disgusting as it gets. IMHO this is a precious PC quibble, taking offence where no offence is intended. If you are really concerned about literal slavery --- as everyone should be --- then join/contribute to an appropriate activist organisation (e.g. Amnesty International, which is my personal choice). cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.