On 05/06/2011 06:02 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On Friday, May 06, 2011 09:48:07 AM Colin Holgate wrote:
and "visible" should be removed and replaced with "visibility"
Of course this would cause problems with backward compatibility, but I think
the argument regarding correct
English grammar is specious. "the visible" refers to a state or property and
as such isn't really incorrect:
the state of the object is "visible" or not "visible". Saying that, I support the idea of
adding "visibility"
as a sometimes more intuitive synonym and the idea of the shorthand "vis" is
appealing, too.
Regards,
Warren
Of course it is specious; but behaving speciously, or, as that
grammatically challenged person,
Steve Jobs, might say "behave specious", can sometimes point out oddities.
Personally I always learn the short form for everything [ c.f. 'vis'] so
I don't get my underpants
in a twist about grammatical categories when programming. I have quite
enough of
grammatical categories in my daytime job . . . :)
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