> Le 16 juin 2020 à 14:14, Michał Brzuchalski <michal.brzuchal...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > Hi Internals, > > I'd like to start a discussion period for my RFC which proposes to change > the use of "blacklist" in Opcache configuration with better > self-descriptive terminology. > > > The RFC is here https://wiki.php.net/rfc/change-terminology-to-excludelist > <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/change-terminology-to-excludelist>
Hi, I object that the proposed term is in any way clearer. “Blacklist” is an idiomatic term with a well-established meaning, so that it is immediately recognisable, and it couldn’t mean anything else that it intends to mean. On the other hand, “exclude_list” is less common, and since I am not accustomed to that terminology, I have to analyse the expression, or rather, since English has the unfortunate tendency to stack words without specifying neither their function nor the precise relation between them, I have to guess what it could mean, with good chance of getting wrong: “exclude the list”? whereas “blacklist” means in fact: “list of items to exclude”. —Claude
