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issue PROCLAIM-ETC-IN-COMPILE-FILE
- To: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu
- Subject: issue PROCLAIM-ETC-IN-COMPILE-FILE
- From: Patrick Dussud <dussud@lucid.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 15:04:21 PDT
- Cc: cl-compiler@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Sandra J Loosemore's message of Mon, 3 Apr 89 15:55:47 MDT <8904032155.AA18515@defun.utah.edu>
From: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 15:55:47 MDT
When we last left this issue, we had eliminated proposals YES and NO
and were debating new names for the DEFPROCLAIM macro in proposal
NEW-MACRO.
Talking to some people informally afterwards, the two suggestions that
appeared to have the most support were DECLAIM and PROCLAMATION.
However, some people said they didn't like DECLAIM because it might be
too obscure for non-native English speakers, and some people said they
didn't like PROCLAMATION because they thought the name should be a
verb.
Actually the term Declaim is obvious to all native speakers of latin based
languages.
Patrick.