mccMay 18, 2025

Me: It's confusing to talk about programming sometimes because that "type" is a vocabulary word with special meaning but it's also a general word in English. I know, if I ever need to express a general category of things, I'll use the unambiguous word "kind".

Haskell: *About to play a hilarious prank on me*

Show threadaevaMay 18, 2025
@mcc imo computer scientists are nowhere near willing enough to make up new words
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@aeva @mcc Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropping_%28syntax%29
Stropping (syntax) - Wikipedia

May 18, 2025 at 8:08pmWeb
Show threadaevaMay 18, 2025
@vikxin @mcc stropping is a perfectly cromulent word
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@aeva @mcc when posting this I didn't know if it was a counterpoint that they shouldn't be naming things or a counterpoint that they had indeed made up good words.
Show threadCounting Is HardMay 18, 2025
@vikxin I didn't know this had a name, so I've had to describe the concept every time I've referred to it