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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:36:06
Message-Id: 20060210113722.4078a0b0@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 47: Creating 'safe' environment variables by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:30:40 -0700
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3
4 > OK, despite the given reasoning, I found this distracting. Perhaps
5 > this is one of Ciaran's English readability suggestions, but is there
6 > a reason not to s/segment/tuple/g ? That seems to me more accurate,
7 > "segment" is more accessible English to non-programmers than "tuple",
8 > and it should cure the distraction problem I experienced. Of course,
9 > it could be just me...
10
11 Probably because he means 'tuple', and not 'segment'. The two are very
12 different things.
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