Re: STH Docs.
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:36:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: STH Docs. | ||
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Hi!
>> To clarify something else: I don't think combing the documentation
>> to remove references to "type hint" is effort well spent. Rather
>> what I meant was that in any new documentation, or if we alter an
>> exiting section, we should choose a more correct terminology.
>
> Consistency is just as technical correctness. If the feature is
> called "type hints", then all references to it should call it "type
> hints"; if the feature is renamed to "parameter types", then
> references to "type hints" will need to be changed to refer to that
> feature. Having multiple names for it in multiple places will just
> confuse users.
I agree that we should use unified terminology, and I propose that
terminology not to be "hinting" but "parameter typing" or "typed
parameters", etc. We may add a note somewhere that it also was referred
as "type hinting", for the benefit of people who heard that term, but
not use it in all docs.
If it's OK, I can fix the docs, shouldn't be too much problem. I just
don't want to do it without consensus on the matter.
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com