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charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Attila Lendvai Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1660658469; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:resent-cc: resent-from:resent-sender:resent-message-id:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=Kfv18lTwi1t9CLwju4pJkmixTElyLZy1y0vohp2qEkw=; b=Fk70cgC+UQdioAf90c6/JIENu/8YdZw6U+LRMsIbG+BlaTOj1a05vTJISPHpYApEuIyuH2 B06okXDVF3zajPkZnDEZmhv+mME3na1qOS69p5O5rcPYNA7U3xhiqUMUm1Qtfbm96KqFEP RfHqWiQUZIBI3G2OG08mFZQeZ18ObiN6QfKttxXrSRLfnDC+er1k4RSc9vcpsYgfT6POc3 WZrO9BzeTvTz9934tyeXhgRwXA9T7WZb8mxoRrLs0LU+t1cYN/InncVnhZQw5jTApcxOc4 Bc6PVM4OevBrgcTwyCZCAoain1V7XAVDFRkNAvZUUi1+q4uzSQH2ZHelH+PxbA== ARC-Seal: i=1; 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so I'd name it 'maybe-value-unset?'; > but as I wrote above I don't really see the benefit/like the idea. it's always funny when two non-native speakers (?) argue about english... := ) maybe we should invite one into the conversation? with that in mind: UNSET-VALUE? certainly doesn't look like an action to me= due to the question mark at the end. if we want to clearly disambiguate th= is, then we should insert 'is' somewhere, e.g. IS-UNSET-VALUE? which is a s= hort version of IS-IT-THE-UNSET-VALUE?, i.e. it is not a shorthand for IS-T= HIS-VALUE-UNSET?, because only places can be in the state of not set. does this clarify my perspective? it's not crucial, though. i can work my way through the changes without ren= aming this, but it'll be public API, so it's better to have something intui= tive and non-misleading published at the earliest possible iteration. -- =E2=80=A2 attila lendvai =E2=80=A2 PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- =E2=80=9CI sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous= than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid = by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a lar= ge scale.=E2=80=9D =09=E2=80=94 Thomas Jefferson (1743=E2=80=931826)