[Python-Dev] _length_cue()
Bengt Richter
bokr at oz.net
Thu Feb 9 20:06:12 CET 2006
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:54:59 -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
> >> Ditto. In addition, we already have queues. Do we really need to
> >> use a homonym that means something entirely different? (Hint:
> >> consider the added difficulty for non-native English speakers).
>
> Guido> Right. As a non-native speaker I can confirm that for English
> Guido> learners, "cue" is a bit mysterious at first while "hint" is
> Guido> obvious.
>
>Guido, you're hardly your typical non-native speaker. I think your English
>may be better than mine. ;-) At any rate, I was thinking of some of the
>posts I see on c.l.py where it requires a fair amount of detective work just
>to figure out what the poster has written, what with all the incorrect
>grammar and wild misspellings. For that sort of person I can believe that
>"cue", "queue" and "kew" might mean exactly the same thing...
>
FWIW, I first thought "cue" might be a typo mutation of "clue" ;-)
+1 on something with "hint".
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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