[Python-Dev] _length_cue() (original) (raw)

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Thu Feb 9 20:06:12 CET 2006

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:54:59 -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>> Ditto. In addition, we already have queues. Do we really need to >> use a homonym that means something entirely different? (Hint: >> consider the added difficulty for non-native English speakers). Guido> Right. As a non-native speaker I can confirm that for English Guido> learners, "cue" is a bit mysterious at first while "hint" is Guido> obvious. Guido, you're hardly your typical non-native speaker. I think your English may be better than mine. ;-) At any rate, I was thinking of some of the posts I see on c.l.py where it requires a fair amount of detective work just to figure out what the poster has written, what with all the incorrect grammar and wild misspellings. For that sort of person I can believe that "cue", "queue" and "kew" might mean exactly the same thing... FWIW, I first thought "cue" might be a typo mutation of "clue" ;-) +1 on something with "hint".

Regards, Bengt Richter

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