Re: Adds dimension stencil command to correct with-dimension (issue 12957047)

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On 24 août 2013, at 12:47, address@hidden wrote:

> On 2013/08/24 08:25:14, dak wrote:
>> On 2013/08/24 08:05:13, mike7 wrote:
>> > On 24 août 2013, at 10:18, mailto:address@hidden wrote:
>> >
>> > > LGTM, except of using `surrogate' in the name.  Given that the
> stencil
>> > > dimensions are actively overridden on request, I would like rather
> like
>> > > having `override'.  For me, the word `surrogate' suggests
> something
>> > > passive.
>> > >
>> > > https://codereview.appspot.com/12957047/
>> >
>> > The definition reads:
> 
>> It doesn't matter what the definition reads.  English has a live
> vocabulary of
>> over 150000 words and there is no need to use all of them in
> identifiers.  We
>> want our identifier names to be boring and following our own
> terminology
>> elsewhere as well as that of other programs.
> 
>> If you pick a non-standard word with slightly different connotations,
> people
>> will think that the slightly different connotations are important,
> rather than
>> that this is just playing randomization games with a thesaurus.
> 
> Having to send highly technical responses to non-native English speakers
> daily as part of my job, I do get Werner's point. Surrogate isn;t
> immediately obvious unless you have a wide vocabulary. I don't know what
> this fix does, but could we use a word like 'alternate' or 'replace' or
> 'proxy' (assuming it is a function/command that has to take a value, and
> 'replace' it temporarily before it puts it back - see? I told you I
> didn't know what this does), or perhaps 'stand-in' or 'backup'.
> 
> We had a classically educated programmer once that used to produce
> beautifully composed 'event' messages and errors, however it just caused
> a lot of confusion to our non-English customers (even some American ones
> ;) ) that we went 'boring' as David so succinctly put it.
> 
> https://codereview.appspot.com/12957047/

The stencil command takes the skyline of stencil X and uses it as a replacement 
for skyline Y. We could use replacement-skyline-stencil as the command.

Cheers,
MS