Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

Randy Dunlap
2020-07-07T15:53:39Z

On 7/7/20 8:24 AM, Bird, Tim wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steven Rostedt
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>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 09:49:21 +0300
>> Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>>> But that's all fine. The change is easy to do and is more descriptive
>>>> even if I can't find terms that don't collide with my internal grammar
>>>> checker. ;)
>>>
>>> How about yeslist and nolist? ;-)
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>> I was thinking good-list / bad-list.
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>> /me that has been doing a lot of git bisect lately...
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> I think it depends on the context. I'd prefer a grammatically awkward verb that described
> the action more specifically, than a grammatically nicer generic term. In other words,
> yes/no, good/bad don't mean that much to me, unless it's obvious from context
> what the effect will be. With something like allow/deny, I have a pretty clear mental
> model of what the code is going to do.

That matches what I was about to say:
Just using yes/no does not tell someone what they are saying yes or no about.
It should be more descriptive, like allow/block.

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~Randy