From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: alain.cochard@unistra.fr, Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 16:43:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8sVh8ymseVvca6NnjPtNJAtA-64iwdhEUrinrjUy2CfCA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu2rie50.fsf@localhost>
backend sounds good to me as a native speaker, for a term of art for
export modules or so, with defined api. if you are talking about back
end code abstractly, i'd go for 2 words, but that's just me. i
wouldn't rely on my sense for this one.
On 11/22/22, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
> Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:
>
>> PS 1: In the manual, I see "backend" and "back-end". So it is an
>> issue similar to the "subtree/sub-tree" issue you fixed a few days
>> ago, to the "heading/headline" issue that was reported recently, and
>> to many similar cases I met in the past. So I was wondering if there
>> could exist some (semi-)automatic way which would ensure that future
>> maintainers will not inadvertently re-introduce "sub-tree"
>> occurrences, or the like. Perhaps some "accepted terminology" list
>> that would be checked upon?
>
> I looked into the manual. It has 197 instances of "back-end" and 24
> instances of "backend". In the code, "backend" is used almost exclusively
> in symbol names (except 5 instances), and "back-end" is used in the
> docstrings and comments.
>
> It is actually a bit confusing.
>
> I am looking at https://techterms.com/definition/backend, and it looks
> like "backend" is the correct word we need to use here. Am I missing
> something?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-06 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-06 6:58 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table Alain.Cochard
2022-11-07 2:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-13 20:41 ` Alain.Cochard
2022-11-14 3:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-15 6:00 ` [RFC] :var x=list-name should be resolved into simple lists (item1 item2 ...); not nested ((item1) (item2) ...) (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table) Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-26 1:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-16 1:24 ` 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-21 9:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-21 9:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-16 16:35 ` Alain.Cochard
2022-11-19 12:28 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-11-20 5:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-22 8:16 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-22 19:13 ` Alain.Cochard
2022-11-24 1:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-22 8:31 ` [RFC] Backend vs. back-end (was: 2 'echo' bash instructions produce a table) Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 10:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-20 14:54 ` Alain.Cochard
2023-04-06 9:57 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-20 12:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-06 23:43 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2022-11-22 8:37 ` [BUG] Make source block auto-completion work for all the loaded babel backends " Ihor Radchenko
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