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

[Jesse Kuhnert]

I just wanted to say that reading these list messages with retina
display feels like a whole new window of insight has opened up. I'll
let you know if I come across anything after I put away a couple more
ciders.

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
> Add that one to the Oracle/Sun Contributor Agreement.
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore
> <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 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!
>>>
>>> Start here:
>>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I believe we need a wiki page on OpenJDK to retain posterity of this
>>>> important matter :-)
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Osvaldo Doederlein<opinali at gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/6/22 Jesse Kuhnert<jkuhnert at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't stop there, I want to hear ~all~ variations. =) (seriously)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tuesday, June 22, 2010, Michael Gaber<mic.gaber at googlemail.com>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 22.06.2010 20:50, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Le 22/06/2010 20:38, maurizio cimadamore a écrit :
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 22/06/2010 19:28, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 22/06/2010 18:55, Alessio Stalla wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM,<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> target method pippo
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> He