Re: GDP: identifiers = ick

[Graham Percival]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Identifier isn't a good term either, that is the term for the lexical
> function ("an identifier a sequence of letters").
>
> Perhaps we should just 'variable'

I thought that "macro" was safer, since we can't redefine variables. 
But I agree with your points against "macro".

...

Intuitively, forgetting about any computer or math courses, I find 
myself wanting to call them "variables".  If somebody is trying to cause 
trouble, they might complain that they can't change their values, but 
I'll stick a sentence in the docs to say that you can't do that.

Anybody with objections to "variable" has until next Wed to voice them.

Cheers,
- Graham