Antonio Vieiro scripsit: > Hi, > > The fact is that I don't like "Thing One", or "Small Scheme".
"Thing One" and "Thing Two" are deliberate jokes; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat#The_Cat_in_the_Hat "small Scheme" and "large Scheme" are descriptions rather than names, hence "small" and "large" are not capitalized. > "small" is a bad adjective. It seems to me it's equivalent to > "poor" or "limited", and I hope this is not the case. The difficulty, indeed, is to find names which are not implicitly derogatory of the other variety. "Complete" would suggest that small Scheme was incomplete, "compact" that large Scheme was bloated. Each name should celebrate the variety it is attached to. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan Rather than making ill-conceived suggestions for improvement based on uninformed guesses about established conventions in a field of study with which familiarity is limited, it is sometimes better to stick to merely observing the usage and listening to the explanations offered, inserting only questions as needed to fill in gaps in understanding. --Peter Constable _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
