[Cuis-dev] Question to English native speakers

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Folks,

I suggest replacing #calleOf: with #contextWithSender: .

In addition, we might replace #completeCallee: with #completeCall: .

Finally, we have #stepToCallee . I'm not sure I understand it, because 
it seems to me that #stepToSender could be a better name for what it is 
doing, but this would change the meaning, right?

Thanks,

On 1/2/2021 2:48 AM, Casey Ransberger via Cuis-dev wrote:
> “Callee” would be the person being called, “caller” would be the 
> person calling. I have no idea what the etymology of this pattern in 
> English is. It’s a mutt language.
>
> I think I first encountered -er/or versus -ee in the contract I had to 
> sign to get my first credit card, in the form of lendee vs lender and 
> debtor vs. debtee. Note that —er and —or are both suffixes that seem 
> to do the same job but change entirely based on the root words they 
> operate on, because English.
>
> This language wasn’t covered in standard public school English class. 
> You usually see it in what Americans call “legalese.” Contracts and 
> such. Employer vs employee; actually that means I encountered it 
> before I was old enough to apply for a credit card, because at 14 I 
> was forced to take a job at Wendy’s. Think McDonalds, but with less 
> room to grow.
>
> I say, jettison this linguistic BS. But make sure you’ve got a better 
> pair of words that are easy to understand even if you aren’t a native 
> English speaker.
>
> I think the correct parlance in Smalltalk is going to be sender and 
> receiver anyway, especially when these two terms generalize to 
> absolutely everything in Smalltalk: “caller” sounds like something a 
> well-meaning Lisp programmer might use in lieu of “sender,” having not 
> yet acquired the carefully selected language that the Ingalls and Kays 
> of the world settled on long ago.
>
> Yeah let’s nuke #caller. It doesn’t fit with even the primarily 
> English-language framework that the inventors of the language used.
>
> —Casey Ransberger
>
>> On Jan 1, 2021, at 6:35 AM, Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev 
>> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hi,
>>  would it be better to name the message #calleeOf: in Process as 
>> #calledFrom:?
>>  Is callee a synonym of called?
>>  Callee is a bit confusing to me, it looks to me that callee is 
>> following the decorator's name pattern where de decorated object is 
>> called decorate...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Hernan.
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