Re: [go-nuts] the Dominance of English in Programming Languages

2019-05-18 Thread Andy Balholm
Just be glad that the American date format caters to (or for!) those Americans who say “January two”, not those who (like me) say “January second.” Imagine what date-formatting code would look like if ordinal suffixes were required! (Jan 1st, Jan 2nd, etc.) Andy > On May 18, 2019, at 2:59 AM,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: the Dominance of English in Programming Languages

2019-05-18 Thread Michael Jones
'carcer' is the word. jail/gaol are just johnny-come-lately. On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 9:43 AM David Riley wrote: > On May 18, 2019, at 05:59, ma...@madra.net wrote: > > On Saturday, 18 May 2019 00:44:33 UTC+1, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: >> >> jail is a clear improvement over the ludicrous

Re: [go-nuts] Go linker efficiency

2019-05-18 Thread Tong Sun
On Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 1:52:43 AM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:12 PM Tong Sun > > wrote: > > > > How efficient Go linker is in detecting unused things (e.g., functions) > in a package during build and remove them from the compiled binary? > > > > To

Re: [go-nuts] Re: the Dominance of English in Programming Languages

2019-05-18 Thread David Riley
On May 18, 2019, at 05:59, ma...@madra.net wrote: > >> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 00:44:33 UTC+1, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: >> jail is a clear improvement over the ludicrous gaol... > > I hadn't actually realised that GAOL vs JAIL was a British vs. US English > distinction. I thought 'Gaol' was

Re: [go-nuts] Go linker efficiency

2019-05-18 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 6:01 AM Tong Sun wrote: > > On Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 1:52:43 AM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:12 PM Tong Sun wrote: >> > >> > How efficient Go linker is in detecting unused things (e.g., functions) in >> > a package during build and

[go-nuts] Re: the Dominance of English in Programming Languages

2019-05-18 Thread Jakub Labath
Back in the 90ies someone at Microsoft had the brilliant idea to translate Visual Basic that came with the Czech version of Excel into Czech. So e.g. IF became KDYZ (well it's not Z it's Z with caron - which also was a problem if character encoding was not set properly) The results were that

Re: [go-nuts] Re: the Dominance of English in Programming Languages

2019-05-18 Thread madra
On Saturday, 18 May 2019 00:44:33 UTC+1, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > jail is a clear improvement over the ludicrous gaol... > I hadn't actually realised that GAOL vs JAIL was a British vs. US English distinction. I thought 'Gaol' was just an archaic spelling of 'Jail', as I've only ever

[go-nuts] Re: go modules and ambiguous import, how to fix it?

2019-05-18 Thread Jérôme LAFORGE
Thx thepudds, the solution with @none has fixed the pb. I just created the issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32128 Le samedi 18 mai 2019 00:13:37 UTC+2, t hepudds a écrit : > > Regarding that specific playground error, bradfitz kindly chimed in via a > more concise forum: > > > >