Re: [mu TECH] 'counter' a scripting util... / fitting names

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 13:24:10 CEST


On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:56:46PM -0400, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
> And I like math... it's like a beautiful girl with an
> unpronouncable name.

but rarely she reciprocate :-))

>So when it is advised, to call it thus for the reason the
> math guys already do, it makes me a bit nervous!
>
> So, a little progress, but maybe there is some other unused name out there that
> is better still? Series, sequence, queue, vlad, (the impaler, after 'Count'
> Dracula), order, step, trot, xeno, (after the Greek Philosopher)... of those
> 'queue' is nice, and has all the right connotations, but is difficult to spell;

Mmmm ... You are a E. Rostand's fan!

Michele

-- 
I'd like to conclude with a positive statement, but I can't 
remember any. Would two negative ones do?       -- Woody Allen
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