On 19/02/18 20:39, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-02-19, Axel Berger  wrote:
>
>> mm0fmf wrote:
>>
>>> Calling something test on a Unixy machine is a learning stage
>>> we must all pass through.
>>
>> For all things, variables, lables, subroutines, where one can easily and
>> inadvertantly hit on a reserved word, I prefer German. So instead of
>> test I'd proably use versuch. Nobody can remember all reserved names, at
>> least I can't. Unfortunately in this case Test has become quite common
>> in German too, so not even that's safe. But what is?
>
> I call things foo, bar, baz...
>
Bollox. I am always happy to write bollox.


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