"...for neither" - really?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Jul 25 15:47:06 EDT 2014


Don't read, don't write, don't wait for it. Perhaps "for neither" could 
be changed into "without waiting". Definitely not asynchronously, 
because that frightens new users. We should do anything we can to keep 
the language as accessible as possible.

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On 7/25/2014 21:34, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Monte recently helped me with a shell task by reminding me that I can
> use this for asynchronously calling another process:
>
>    open tSomeProcessCommand for neither
>
> Useful enough, but the syntax kinda bugs me.
>
> When you read the full Dictionary entry for "open process" it kinda
> makes sense, but it feels a bit silly to type it.
>
> Anyone here think it's worth the dev team's time to propose
> "asynchronously" as a synonym for "for neither"?
>
> Better still, anyone here know their way around the code base and care
> enough about this sort of nit-picking to add that?
>
> Is it even worth thinking about?
>




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