I haven’t followed the discussion about new syntax for private variables
very closely, but I don’t like the idea of using leading underscores for
them. I apologize if this has already been suggested and rejected, but …
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the rest
of the world”.
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Mmmm… and then how are we going to distinguish them from comments?
Bill
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Volkmann, Mark Mark.Volkmann@agedwards.com wrote:
I haven’t followed the discussion about new syntax for private variables
very closely, but I don’t like the idea of using leading underscores for
them. I apologize if this has already been suggested and rejected, but …
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the rest
of the world”.
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the rest
of the world”.
You know, maybe I’m just European, but when you wrote pound sign, I
immediately thought of British (GBP) pounds: £.
I always looked at that sign as a funky L, which could denote “locked
away” or “local”.
Party line: Break the hegemony the US has! Support other monetary
symbols for special purposes in computer languages!
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Thursday, October 10, 2002, 7:20:41 PM, you wrote:
I haven’t followed the discussion about new syntax for private variables
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the rest
of the world”.
congratulations! real programmers ™ never writes comments and even
don’t know how to do it!
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the rest
of the world”.
You know, maybe I’m just European, but when you wrote pound sign, I
immediately thought of British (GBP) pounds: £.
I always looked at that sign as a funky L, which could denote “locked
away” or “local”.
Party line: Break the hegemony the US has! Support other monetary
symbols for special purposes in computer languages!
I agree, “pound” to me always means that character I can’t type, and I ain’
even Bri’ish, inni’? Can anyone explain why some people call “#” “pound”? To
me it’s “number” or “hash”.
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the
rest
of the world”.
You know, maybe I’m just European, but when you wrote pound sign, I
immediately thought of British (GBP) pounds: £.
I always looked at that sign as a funky L, which could denote “locked
away” or “local”.
Party line: Break the hegemony the US has! Support other monetary
symbols for special purposes in computer languages!
We already use the yen symbol for backslash…
Hal
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Kent Dahl” kentda@stud.ntnu.no
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Too Many Underscores?
I agree, “pound” to me always means that character I can’t type, and I ain’
even Bri’ish, inni’? Can anyone explain why some people call “#” “pound”? To
me it’s “number” or “hash”.
I have looked on a number of occasions, and can’t find out where the “#” →
“pound” (i.e. unit of weight) mapping came from; but I’m guessing it was used in
days olde to notate that a number was to be taken for “pounds”; perhaps on
manifests, bills of lading and the like. That’s pure conjecture on my part,
however. The pound meaning of it seems to be an American invention.
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the
rest
of the world”.
You know, maybe I’m just European, but when you wrote pound sign, I
immediately thought of British (GBP) pounds: £.
I always looked at that sign as a funky L, which could denote “locked
away” or “local”.
Party line: Break the hegemony the US has! Support other monetary
symbols for special purposes in computer languages!
I agree, “pound” to me always means that character I can’t type, and I
ain’
even Bri’ish, inni’? Can anyone explain why some people call “#” “pound”?
To
me it’s “number” or “hash”.
I think in some contexts it’s an abbreviation
for pound (as in sixteen ounces). Possibly an
Americanism, probably old-fashioned.
Hal
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----- Original Message -----
From: “Gavin Sinclair” gsinclair@soyabean.com.au
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Too Many Underscores?
The ‘#’ resembles a little the German pound sign (“Pfund”). A german
Pfund is 0,5kg and is a commonly used weight unit. It has a own,now seldom
used sign. Sadly I didn’t find an url for more information.
-billy.
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:51:54PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: “Gavin Sinclair” gsinclair@soyabean.com.au
To: “ruby-talk ML” ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: Too Many Underscores?
What about preceding them with a pound sign? You could say that the #
represents being “behind bars”, “in prison” and “locked away from the
rest
of the world”.
You know, maybe I’m just European, but when you wrote pound sign, I
immediately thought of British (GBP) pounds: £.
I always looked at that sign as a funky L, which could denote “locked
away” or “local”.
Party line: Break the hegemony the US has! Support other monetary
symbols for special purposes in computer languages!
I agree, “pound” to me always means that character I can’t type, and I
ain’
even Bri’ish, inni’? Can anyone explain why some people call “#” “pound”?
To
me it’s “number” or “hash”.
I think in some contexts it’s an abbreviation
for pound (as in sixteen ounces). Possibly an
Americanism, probably old-fashioned.
