Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes:
> On 20.06.2018 11:18, Urs Liska wrote:
>> (let*
>> ((elts (ly:music-property mus 'elements))
>> (cnt (length elts)
>
> OT: Is ‘cnt’ a common abbreviation in programming? Because it would
> seem to me like it’s too close to offensive…
"count" doesn't seem that much better. Nor does "gown".
Let me quote from Shakespeare's "Henry V":
KATHARINE
Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment
appelez-vous le pied et la robe?
ALICE
De foot, madame; et de coun.
KATHARINE
De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais
prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.
ALICE
Excellent, madame!
At any rate, "cnt" does not seem all that bad considering that Scheme
would also permit asterisks into identifiers like "c*nt". Which, taking
common wildcard rules, could still stand in for "count" but I doubt
people would interpret it that way.
--
David Kastrup
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