On 5/7/05, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote: >|> I assume Ruby users smart enough to >|> deal with them by context until the time. >|There are newcomers. > I assume most of newcomers are capable to understand the term very > quick. Am I too optimistic? Not at all. I don't think that anyone else who has come to Ruby and posted on ruby-talk in the last three years -- how long I think I've been around -- has not grasped this after a single round of emails. Let me rephrase that for clarity: in my memory of the last three years, the person to whom you responded is the only person who continues to insist that this term is confusing and is a problem. There is the ongoing discussion about whether there might be a better term, but no one, at least as far as I can read, is *confused* about the meaning here. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca