Pronouncing "print>>"

prm vtbl.moorepe at memo.volvo.se
Thu Aug 31 09:39:55 EDT 2000


Just to add to the list, I saw these lovlies in the dictionary.

titlarks
gapers
baasskaps
gamps
sibships
arris

Peter Moore
Carey Evans wrote:
> 
> While I don't really like the new print syntax, I've decided to accept
> it.  This leaves me with the problem of how to say it out loud.
> However, I just remembered ESR's "ascii" program:
> 
> $ ascii '>'
> ASCII 3/14 is decimal 062, hex 3e, octal 076, bits 00111110: prints as `>'
> Official name: Greater-than sign
> Other names: Right Angle, Write To, Into, Toward, Out, To, Gozinta,
>   Right Funnel, Right Broket, Zap, Blow
> 
> I can see a few candidates for pronunciation of a common use here:
> 
>   print>> sys.stderr, ...
> 
>      "print gozinta sys dot standard err"
>      "print zap zap sys dot standard err"
>      "print zaps sys dot standard err"
>      "print blows sys dot standard err"
> 
> I'm partial to the first option myself, thogh the last one has a
> certain something.  Opinions?
> 
> --
>          Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
> 
>   "As I understand it, gnus is emacs. Thus gnus is Evil Incarnate."
>                                                        - Jasper Janssen



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