What is "Open Language"?

[Mark Wieder]

Mark-

Well. *This* certainly seems to have hit a nerve.

I would be fine with having everything be "hilite". Or with everything 
being "highlight". Or with everything being "blxxqvy". The point of the 
original bug report was that there's no consistency in the language. 
Sometimes you can use the "highlight" form and sometimes you have to use 
the "hilite" form. The problem is trying to remember which is which.

So that's what my pull request fixes.

I agree with what you're saying about the proliferation of synonyms. I'm 
not wild about most of the other synonyms in the language either... 
"cd", "fld", etc (although I'd hate to give up "loc" and "rect") But 
right now we're trying to have it both ways. To my eye the "hilite" form 
looks cutesy and unprofessional, but I do understand developers are lazy 
and don't like typing, so I'd be fine with that. It's in the 
documentation already.

But really... let's move in the direction of some consistency.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com