On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:26:51 -0400, Richard Hipp
<d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>SURVEY QUESTION:
>
>The question for today is what to call this magic hint function:
>
>(1) unlikely(EXPR)
>(2) selective(EXPR)
>(3) seldom(EXPR)
>(4) seldom_true(EXPR)
>(5) usually_not_true(EXPR)
>
>Please feel free to suggest other names if you think of any.
>
>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
>
>The current implementation allows a second argument which must be a
>floating point constant between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive. The second argument
>is an estimate of the probability that the expression in the first argument
>will be true. The default is 0.05. Names like "unlikely" or "seldom" work
>well when this probability is small, but if the second argument is close to
>1.0, then those names seem backwards. I don't know if this matters. The
>optional second argument is not guaranteed to make it into an actually
>release.
Use a word that connotes no value on a scale, a word that has
no value implied by the word itself.
These seem OK to me:
confidence
probability
chance
selective
ned (I like this one especially)
These do not:
unlikely
seldom
usually
--
Ned
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