Look, I can use any set of names we want. But I can't even make a start without a set of names, and once chosen they unavoidably get set in concrete. Has anyone got a showstopper of a reason not to go with the list in http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames ? ...which is the same as column 4 in table 2 of http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/Discussion
Aren't they're only placeholders as far as the end-user is concerned? Is anyone seriously going to type them or have to remember them? I can't think of a task that needs that. There's an argument for having a consistent set of names, taken from some published source, not just an Irish Parliament of what we fancy. Someone suggested the set from the Adobe Red Book and that's what I went with. Even though it says "period" for "dot" (which I personally don't fancy much, but I don't think it matters). Have I missed something in the long discussion we've had about it on this thread? If so stop me before I do another thing. Ian On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:22 PM, neville holmes <holme...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > I know it's rather presumptuous of me coming into this > project from the sidelines, but, given the idea is to > make things easier for novices, I do feel careful > consideration should be given to J names. > > For example, in the names of Ian Clark's stubs: > > = equal > =. equalperiod > =: equalcolon > < less > <. lessperiod > <: lesscolon >> greater >>. greaterperiod >>: greatercolon > > Surely it should be equaldot &c. simply because, > for a novice it's one syllable rather than three > and for someone needing an English dictionary > it's less ambiguous. > > Even more pedantically, less and greater strictly > refer to magnitudes and lower and higher would be > better. Otherwise, less means subtraction and > lesser would be better than less. > > Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
