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<dthompson>sneek: later tell spk121 I wonder if whippet will improve the situation for gc + threads on windows.

<daviid>foo, bar, baz ... then what is the 4th most common used name that follows?

<dalepsmith>I always use "zap" but I think the canonical one is "quux"

<daviid>dalepsmith: :) ok

<daviid>zap or zab, quux is terrible, but foo, bar, baz, zab sounds funnier

<daviid>ACTION is distracting all guilers with ridiculous quiz ... :)

<dalepsmith>"quux" just seemed odd. Wrong number of chars. To my ear the foo bar bas zap has a somewhat rising vocal resonance.

<dalepsmith>s/bas/baz/

<yewscion>Is there a consensus in the Guile community for denoting symbols which are meant to be considered as constants? I'm tempted to use a + or % prefix to the symbol, but I'd rather adopt the community standard. I wasn't able to find one anywhere, though.

<Arsen>hmm, I can't quite find it, but I seem to recall that the meaning of those characters and naming convention in general is documented somewhere in the guile manual

<yewscion>Arsen: Awesome, I'll start looking there again as well, then. Thanks for the point in the right direction!

<Arsen>good luck!

<daviid>here is one - http://community.schemewiki.org/?variable-naming-convention

<daviid>dalepsmith: how about asking our bot to remember the above?

<daviid>and this http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-style, which points to the above - but ... Rule 5: There are no rules ...

<yewscion>daviid: Thanks for the link! I suppose since the +symbol+ syntax is listed there, I will just go with that. Easy to remember, since I have experience with CL. And I definitely prefer that to all caps.

<daviid>yewscion: welcome

<rlb>daviid: hmm, I'd tended toward foo bar baz bax ..., but that might just have been me :)

<rlb>(Thought I remembered that from somewhere...)

<daviid>rlb: oh nice, tx - i used zap, as suggested by dalepsmith, but bax sounds cool to ... tx :)

<rlb>...also thought maybe bleem came after quux.

<rlb>...looks like guile info pages include quux zot and frotz :)

<tohoyn>sneek: botsnack

<sneek>tohoyn, you have 1 message!

<sneek>tohoyn, daviid says: nice, thanks

<sneek>:)

<dalepsmith>daviid: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html

<daviid>dalepsmith: nice, maybe we should teach our bot to remeber these 3 links, in one keyword - not sure which would be best - but link (a) the scheme programming style link, (b) variable naming conventions and (c) this metasyntactic var names

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