[OT] pippo (was Re: hg: lambda/lambda/langtools: Improved support for diagnostic during lambda conversion.)

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

 From now on, I propose that serious lambda poster should only use the 
names 'Foonc', 'Lamb' and 'Sam' in their examples ;-)

Maurizio


On 23/06/10 16:53, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Sure, but this is a matter of importance that goes far beyond OpenJDK -- go for wikipedia!
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> Start here:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
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> On Jun 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:
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>> I believe we need a wiki page on OpenJDK to retain posterity of this
>> important matter :-)
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>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Osvaldo Doederlein<opinali at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> 2010/6/22 Jesse Kuhnert<jkuhnert at gmail.com>
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>>>> Don't stop there, I want to hear ~all~ variations. =) (seriously)
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>>> If that's what you mean, FWIW, Goofy is "Pateta" in pt_BR. Pluto is the
>>> same. But I've never seen these used in source code, not even in the
>>> goofiest code :) likely to avoid the cost of paying royalties to Disney.  Or
>>> we just don't have this habit of using cartoon names, at least not as a
>>> widespread, standard thing. When I find "funny" code it will have
>>> identifiers named after totally random sources of inspiration: profanity,
>>> soccer teams, music lyrics, punchlines from TV humor programs... whatever
>>> suits the author. There is no standard idiom like the American foo/bar that
>>> serves so well the need of 1-2 unimportant identifiers... this is a problem
>>> that could be seriously slowing Brazil's progress in IT. Some people adopt
>>> foo/bar but this is cultural imperialism... must email our standards
>>> institute ABNT, and perhaps our Academy of Letters, to create a native
>>> foo/bar equivalent...
>>>
>>> A+
>>> Osvaldo
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>>>
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>>>> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Michael Gaber<mic.gaber at googlemail.com>  wrote:
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>>>>> On 22.06.2010 20:50, Rémi Forax wrote:
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>>>>>> Le 22/06/2010 20:38, maurizio cimadamore a écrit :
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>>>>>>> On 22/06/2010 19:28, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 22/06/2010 18:55, Alessio Stalla wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM,<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
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>>>>   wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>> target method pippo
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>>>>>>>>> Heh - that reveals something about your origins ;)
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>>>>>>>> Indeed it does [I knew you would have noticed :-) ]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maurizio
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>>>>>>> For non-italian readers - following an (ehm) ancient tradiation,
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>>>> italian
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>>>>>>> programmers use to name things after walt disney cartoon character. Put
>>>>>>> in other words, Goofy ('pippo' in Italian) and Pluto are our Foo and
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>>>> Bar
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>>>>>>> :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maurizio
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>>>>>> In France, we use 'toto' and its variations 'titi' and 'tutu'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rémi
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>>>>> And in Germany bla, blubb and blubber are common besides foo et al
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>>>>>            
>>>>>>>>> Sorry for the OT ;)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Peace,
>>>>>>>>> Alessio
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