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1. Other terms are neither more descriptive nor more neutral. 2. If someone has a problem with the term "sanity check", they are overly sensitive and they need
by bigstrat2003 3y ago
1. Other terms are neither more descriptive nor more neutral.
2. If someone has a problem with the term "sanity check", they are overly sensitive and they need to adjust to the realities of life. It is unreasonable to expect everyone to coddle them.
- elwell 3y agoCan we please change PHP's die() function to unalive()?
- kyleee 3y agounalive() offends me, let’s do sunset() instead
- latentsea 3y agosunset() triggers me due to all the times I've seen companies "sunset" APIs only to still have them in production 5 years later. Let's change it to cancelled()
- randomdata 3y agocancelled() makes it seem as if PHP is a sexual predator – which may be the case, but as a matter of course... How about goodbye()?
- mikestew 3y agoWe shouldn’t be using judgemental words like “good” and “bad”. Let’s use bye().
- elwell 3y agogoodbye() could offend someone whose father "went out to get a pack of smokes" and never came back
- latentsea 3y agoOk, let's change it to fetchmilk()
- randomdata 3y agoBound to offend someone who found out their father was the milkman. Make it idontevenknowanymore()
- latentsea 3y agoOk... null() it is then!
- exe34 3y agoThis is double plus good.
- handojin 3y agoseems lacking in gratitude. how about kthxbye()?
- duskwuff 3y agoIt's been synonymous with exit() since at least PHP 4.
- eesmith 3y agoBut that's what you call to make your process be a zombie. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
- layer8 3y agoHow about depart().
- cdchn 3y agoOr sometimes people voluntarily make these changes not because someone has a problem, but because they're considerate of other people.