On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 6:49 PM Michael Cordover <p...@mjec.net> wrote: > > The black in black hole and the white in whitespace are descriptions of the > actual colors of these things. > There's no value judgement there. > Blacklist, on the other hand, is explicitly making a judgement that things on > that list are bad. > The association of "black" with "bad" (and "white" with "good" in whitelist) > is the problem, not merely the use of a color at all.
Yes, someone who gets it. I am using the term "blacklist" often in the project I work on, and it never occurred to me before that it could be considered offensive. But I learned something new in this thread and I am thankful for that! Best, Jakob -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
