On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant<jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:13:28 +0000, Lie Ryan wrote: >> >> >>> >>> When people are fighting over things like `sense`, although sense may >>> not be strictly wrong dictionary-wise, it smells of something burning... >>> >> >> That would be my patience. >> >> I can't believe the direction this discussion has taken. Anybody sensible >> would be saying "Oh wow, I've just learned a new meaning to the word, that's >> great, I'm now less ignorant than I was a minute ago". But oh no, we mustn't >> use a standard meaning to a word, heaven forbid we disturb people's >> ignorance by teaching them something new. >> >> It's as simple as this: using `sense` as a variable name to record the >> sense of a function is not a code smell, any more than using `flag` to >> record a flag would be, or `sign` to record the sign of an object. If you >> don't know the appropriate meanings of the words sense, flag or sign, learn >> them, don't dumb down my language. >> >> > > Can't we just calm down ? I'm really sorry my ignorance started this thread, > and my apologies go to Kj who's obviously more fluent in english than me. > I've never used sense in that way before, nor I've seen used by others until > now. However Kj is right, and my dictionary seems wrong (wordreference.com). > I've searched through others dictionaries and find out this is actually > applicable to functions. My bad. > > JM
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