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What else would you name it?
by eridius 7y ago
What else would you name it?
- umanwizard 7y agoCNBiaoJie Still easier to understand than this monstrosity, even for those who don’t speak Chinese (assuming they can google the documentation).
- eridius 7y agoI have no idea what "BiaoJie" is (well, in context, I assume it's a romanization of the pronunciation of 表姐), so that name would be completely unhelpful. Whereas the current name describes the relationship such that I can understand it, even if I don't know why this particular relationship is deserving of a name. Something like CNBiaoJie also assumes that Chinese is the only language that names this relationship, and I don't know if that's true.
- whoevercares 7y agoIndia has the same convention and words However the CN prefix might mean you should learn a bit Pinyin or Chinese haha
- umanwizard 7y agoI have no idea what ElderCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter is, and understanding and remembering "BiaoJie" would be much easier for me than re-parsing that every time. As I pointed out in another comment, there's a reason we give short names to complicated concepts instead of spelling them out every time. "while" is a lot easier to understand once its meaning has been explained to you than "EveryTimeWeGetHereCheckIfThisConditionIsTrueAndExecuteThisCodeBlockAndJumpBackHereIfSo". > Something like CNBiaoJie also assumes that Chinese is the only language that names this relationship, and I don't know if that's true. No it doesn't, not any more than having an identifier called "Sister" assumes that English is the only language with the concept of sisters.
- eridius 7y agoBiaoJie is literally the transliteration of Chinese. So yes, naming it BiaoJie is saying this is explicitly Chinese.