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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:25:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86odf0pywz.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 471302D2.6010405@trolltech.com

Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> writes:

> David Kastrup said the following on 14.10.2007 19:48:
>> Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> writes:
>>
>>> Wincent Colaiuta said the following on 14.10.2007 18:35:
>>>
>>>> "undecided" sounds good to me. It should be clear to non-native
>>>> speakers of English (at least, clearer than "dunno").
>>> What about just "unknown"?
>>
>> I tend to nitpick to the degree of silliness when my own suggestions
>> are concerned, but "unknown" sounds to me like the state _before_ the
>> test.  If a person says he is "undecided" about something that means
>> that he _has_ thought about it already.  "Undecidable" might bring
>> this distinction across more strongly, but it is a more complicated
>> word and it insinuates that it is _impossible_ to come to a decision
>> regardless of the spent effort.
>>
>> "unknown" clearly is much better than "dunno" though even if my own
>> favorite would be "undecided".
>
> What then about a good'ol programming favorite, "void"? :-)

Huh?  void is a type, not a value.  void would insinuate that it was
wrong to ask the question, not that its answer could not be
determined.

> I agree that "unknown" might be a state even _before_ a person has
> determined if a case is good or bad (same for 'dunno' actually: "-
> Do you know if it works? - I dunno yet") When I think more about it,
> I really like "void"..

Well, I don't.

Basically, I would say that this seems to be so much a matter of
personal taste that we should at this point of time leave the decision
of how to pick this to Junio.  Whether this gets resolved by vote or
by authority: seems like the fine lines are no longer worth the time
invested in discussing them.

-- 
David Kastrup

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-15  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 12:28 [PATCH 0/7] Bisect dunno Christian Couder
2007-10-14 12:43 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 12:59   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 13:00   ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:09     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-14 15:09       ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 15:14         ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-14 16:13       ` René Scharfe
2007-10-14 16:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-14 16:35           ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-14 17:24             ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-10-14 17:48               ` David Kastrup
2007-10-15  6:04                 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-10-15  6:15                   ` David Symonds
2007-10-15  7:02                     ` Johan Herland
2007-10-15  9:31                       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-15 11:53                         ` David Symonds
2007-10-15 20:33                           ` Geert Bosch
2007-10-15 20:47                             ` David Kastrup
2007-10-16  6:07                               ` David Symonds
2007-10-16  6:17                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:10                                   ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-10-17 16:13                                     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 16:17                                     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 19:23                                       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-17 22:59                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-17 23:46                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:59                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-18  1:24                                   ` David Symonds
     [not found]                                 ` <200710190449.49477.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2007-10-19  2:49                                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-16  3:41                     ` Christian Couder
2007-10-15  8:25                   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-10-14 17:25       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-14 16:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17  7:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-17 18:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-17 23:36     ` Christian Couder

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