From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 11328@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11328: 24.1.50; Comment in `dired-copy-file-recursive' code
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:40:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5pk53ra.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D7414BA5657418E9D2AB4D0AA0E71A3@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:22:04 -0700")
On 24 Apr 2012, Drew Adams stated:
> While on the subject of comments in this file, you might want to change "fluid
> variable" everywhere to "free variable". This is perhaps a translation problem.
> (AFAIK, in English fluid variables have only to do with fluid mechanics.)
Fluid variables are a Scheme thing (more, generally, a
functional-programming thing). "Dynamically-scoped free variable" would
be a reasonable thing to replace it with. If this were a docstring or a
string in the manual, I'd agree that either this needs replacing, or
fluids need a definition -- but this is a code comment, and finding out
what a fluid is once you see that is a matter of ten seconds looking in,
say, the Guile manual.
--
NULL && (void)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 17:37 bug#11328: 24.1.50; Comment in `dired-copy-file-recursive' code Drew Adams
2012-04-24 17:49 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-24 18:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-25 13:40 ` Nix [this message]
2012-04-25 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-25 18:42 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-25 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-26 5:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-26 14:09 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-26 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-26 18:38 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-24 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-09 4:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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