[E-Lang] Proposed Naming Convention Changes

[Terry Stanley]

At 06:42 PM 8/21/01 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At 3:28 PM -0700 8/21/01, Terry Stanley wrote:
>>+++++ An update.
>>Before I could send this message off, marcs tried out the new conventions on
>>the examples in Walnut -- "vow" is fine but "pass" just doesn't work. He
>>thinks we should drop "pass" and instead, use "grip". I like "grip" but it
>>seems out-of-character with our other names -- such as "vow". But perhaps we
>>can change "vow" to something that is in-character with "grip".
>
>How about using "remote", abbreviated to "rmt" instead of pass.  "Q" (for
>"Queue") might also work.

Hi Bill,

The problem with remote (rmt) is that the reference could be local. The use of far (farCar) in the Walnut conventions had the same problem -- since the car could be local, the use of far differed from what was defined in the taxonomy.

Q is interesting ...

Thanks,
Terry