Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: user-friendly hash formats, redux

[Nathan Myers]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:56:17PM +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> 
> I must say I'm growing to like Nathan's tlw idea - given a careful 
> choice of words to minimize the bug/bag issue. It would be the best of 
> both worlds if you could get rid of the more blatant confusions like 
> bug/bag and buy/bye by introducing a "few" "nice" non-words. E.g., 
> 'taz' isn't a word, but it works great (besides, its the name of a 
> cartoon character :-).

A non-native techie might no realize that "Foo" (which I used in my
example) isn't a real English word outside hackerdom.  :-)

Nathan Myers
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