At 2:02 AM +0200 on 5/28/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
> I was thinking about deleting blocks, buttons etc. I.e. if a card is
>requested to kill a button, would we name it KillButton() or DeleteButton()
>? Delete is more English-like, but Kill more clearly indicates that we
>don't mean "Remove".
Huh? You've lost me. We don't mean to remove the buttons? Then how are we deleting
them?
And what's wrong with operator delete?
>
>>How about "Unlink" instead? Remove sounds like delete to me.
>
>Urg. But you're right. Maybe we could settle for "Detach" or
>"Disassociate"? Link could get in the way when we get to web functionality.
>Attach/Detach or Associate/Disassociate sound like pairs which would work
>better.
Associate & Disassociate would be OK, except that first we'll have to take the words
back from the chemists.
And then we'll have to fix "disassociate" by changing it to "dissociate"
>
>>I have LinuxPPC to use. I'll use egcs on them. I already plan to before
>>releasing the next interpreter.
>>
>>I can also try them on the dark side using Boreland 4.5 and cygwin (i.e.,
>>egcs).
>
>Guess I'm the only one who's running MacOS alone...
Hmmm... Get LinuxPPC or MkLinux!
>Well, I have this old
>Atari STf some floors above me in a box ... ;-)
Do old Atari's come with C++ compilers?
