On 2020-08-27 16:53, Daniel Long Sockwell wrote:
Also, I don't have the same reaction to the phrase "funny names" that
you do -- I don't think of "funny names" as necessarily being esoteric.
They could just be a bit unusual. For example, if you want to get the
numerator and denominator of a rational number in Raku, you use a method
that's comprised of the first two letters of "numerator" and
"denominator": that is, you call `Rat.nude`. Now, *I'd* say that
`Rat.nude` is a bit of a funny name, but there's sure nothing esoteric
about it!
When I look at it, I am reminded of the settings on
some kitchen blenders: pulverize, obliterate, annihilate,
masticate, disintegrate, etc. (yes I am being a bit
funny here). I just want to know which one is high,
medium, and low!
And you are right, if you think long and hard about it,
you can kinda-sorta can figure it out. It reminds me of a
favorite saying of some of the worthless, pompous, arrogant,
blowhard university professors I had to suffer in my
youth: "The solution is intuitively obvious and left
up to the student to figure out."
That kind of thinking has no place in the documents.
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When you say, "I wrote a program that
crashed Windows," people just stare at
you blankly and say, "Hey, I got those
with the system, for free."
-- Linus Torvalds
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