GNU bug report logs - #57050
[PATCH 0/6] gnu: Update Racket to 8.6. Add Zuo.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 06:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #347 received at 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Philip McGrath <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>, Efraim Flashner
 <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "\(" <paren <at> disroot.org>,
 Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>,
 Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/14] gnu: Add Zuo.
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:58:49 +0200

Am Samstag, dem 27.08.2022 um 14:08 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022, at 8:01 AM, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, dem 25.08.2022 um 16:04 -0400 schrieb Philip
> > McGrath:
> > > How does this seem?
> > > 
> > >       (description "Zuo (作) is a tiny Racket with primitives for
> > > dealing
> > I don't think (作) adds anything meaningful.  Perhaps a Chinese
> > translation might want to use that character, but in English we
> > have to
> > deal with the fact that most no one will understand that. 
> 
> I think "(作)" concisely answers the question, "Why is this called
> Zuo?" (Answer: 作 means, roughly, "make".)
To the average English speaker, which you'll have to assume in a
description, it really doesn't.  You'll have to know that Zuo means
make, at which point it is no longer that concise :)
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