hello people,
i'm not english native so maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me that macros
are neutral and should be called 'it', not 'she'. i provide a patch for
the cases a spotted but i can investigate more if this patch is
relevant.
cheers,
marc
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Salut Marc,
Marc Chantreux wrote on Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:33:40PM +0100:
> i'm not english native so maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me that macros
> are neutral and should be called 'it', not 'she'. i provide a patch for
> the cases a spotted but i can investigate more if this patch is
> relev
+1 Mom is maman.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:53:14PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Salut Marc,
>
> Marc Chantreux wrote on Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 10:33:40PM +0100:
>
> > i'm not english native so maybe i'm wrong but it seems to me that macros
> > are neutral and should be called 'it', not 'she'. i
Hi Ingo,
> I sense a pun here: the English word "mom"
That's an American word. :-) English speakers say "mum".
Including in the phrase `Mum's the word'.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
I once had a macro package named "My Ugly Macros", or "MUM" for short. It
was a tongue-in-cheek reference to this package (though I ended up renaming
it to "mono" instead; all I wanted was a package starting with "m".
Because, you know, acro-package naming traditions).
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 10:02,
hello everyone and thanks for this fast and friendly answer.
> That's an American word. :-) English speakers say "mum".
indeed. by the way i missed the pun for another reason: at the very
begining of the documentation, mom is named as “my own macros”,
“my other macros”, “maximum overdrive macro
Hi,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:02:01PM +:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> I sense a pun here: the English word "mom"
> That's an American word. :-) English speakers say "mum".
> Including in the phrase `Mum's the word'.
Oh well. A German attempting to educate a French abou
> and was born in Costa Rica. What could possibly go wrong?
a stupid idea? let's give a clue about the pun:
for lang name (
es mama
en mum
fr maman
pt mae
ar mama
) {
print $lang people also have mom
ln -s mom.tmac $name
ln
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Oh well. A German attempting to educate a French about the
> English written by a Canadian who lives in Ontario and Quebec
> and was born in Costa Rica. What could possibly go wrong?
I love this.
BTW, I accidentally replied to Marc off list, explaini
