On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Le 24 févr. 2014 à 19:40, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> I don't think this use of the word "turn" is broadly enough known to > provide many spec. readers an immediate intuitive feeling for the concept. > > > > It seems to me that the word "turn" is widely used in that sense for > turned-based games such as chess, so that it has a good chance to be > understood. Or am I mistaken? > > I agree with Claude and others who feel that "turn" is confusing Hi Tab, you are reading Claude's message in the opposite way that I am. Hi Claude, which did you mean? > - in > every outside use of "turn" as a noun, it refers to the time-slice in > which you take actions, not the actions themselves. It is sometimes > used slangily to refer to "the things you did during the timeslice", > like "Argh, your turn destroyed my plan, now I've got to think more.", > but in general using "turn" to refer to an action feels extremely > weird to me. > > At least for me, this intuition comes from my long experience as a > gamer of various sorts - this usage applies equally to card games, > board games, video games, etc. > I won't die if it ends up getting used, but I'd greatly prefer a different > term. > > ~TJ > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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