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FWIW I follow your argument but my perception is not visual at all but “grammatical”. Do you read punctuation out loud in your head? If not then whatever you do
by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
FWIW I follow your argument but my perception is not visual at all but “grammatical”. Do you read punctuation out loud in your head? If not then whatever you do is how I chunk “fn”, which if it has to be verbalized gets pronounced by inserting schwas wherever convenient so like “fun”
- rectang 8y agoOften, but not always? I might read `(a, b, c)` as "a b c" rather than "a comma b comma c" and unless I was dictating I would not say "left paren", etc. On the other hand, I would read "foo.bar()" as "foo dot bar". The specifics of this subvocalization habit, I don't think are salient. What's interesting (to me at least) is that I have to have some verbalization and when something doesn't fit into the model it is disturbing. I imagine that other people with this habit have different specific pronunciations, but the way they experience code is similar. For what it's worth, I pronounce `fn` as "effin". Which may or may not be an editorial comment on the spelling, depending on my mood. :)