From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: maintenance of overriding subprograms
Date: 1997/09/12
Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5vau2k$psf$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5v87gd$r00$1@miso.it.uq.edu.au
This thread is based on initialise/initialize.
I have real trouble with colour/color (I mean, English is French based,
not Spanish based, right? (:-) (:-)).
Something that would be very helpful would be a way to say
"treat these two spellings as identical".
This would also be of use for people whose languages _do_ have an Academy
(which the OED is _not_ for English) and where that Academy from time to
time revises spellings. I believe German has recently undergone a
revision, the nature and scope of which I don't begin to understand, but
is it not possible that people might have to cope with before/after
spellings for a while?
'rename' _almost_ does the job, but not quite. In particular, if you
introduce a renaming for a primitive operation, you can't override the
_old_ name by overriding the _new_ name.
Something like this could get out of hand, I'm afraid.
A way of saying "forbid this identifier whenever this other identifier
is in use" would be less prone to abuse. Point is, whichever it is,
it shouldn't be limited to a handful of built-in words.
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1997-09-02 0:00 maintenance of overriding subprograms Stephen Leake
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <340DCE1D.6C5F@bix.com>
1997-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-24 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Anonymous
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1997-09-10 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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