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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