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Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name

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Paul Johnson writes:

> To be clear, my tongue was firmly in my cheek for that last
> suggestion, but that doesn't seem to travel too well over SMTP.

Sure, I realized it was a cheeky suggestion.

But there are enough UK folk about who complain about -ize being “an
Americanism” that there might've been readers who genuinely thought
‘minimize’ is wrong in the UK.

> And the myriad smileys which adorned my initial message seem to have
> been similarly lost.

Since my previous mail, my MP3 player started playing this podcast at
me, on the linguists of “maths”: http://relprime.com/thelexicon/

So maybe Math::Boolean::Minimise would be the best name, to annoy
everybody equally?

Smylers
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  Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name pagaltzis@gmx.de (Aristotle Pagaltzis) - 2016-09-10 05:58 +0200
    Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-10 14:46 +0200
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name Smylers@stripey.com (Smylers) - 2016-09-12 11:55 +0100
        Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-12 13:12 +0200
          Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name Smylers@stripey.com (Smylers) - 2016-09-12 12:44 +0100
            Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name paul@pjcj.net (Paul Johnson) - 2016-09-12 14:18 +0200
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell) - 2016-09-12 18:23 +0100
      Re: Boolean As a Top Level Name litt@acm.org (Timothe Litt) - 2016-09-11 19:00 -0400

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