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Don't put Mexico and Texas in opposition in Perl 6 jargon #6556

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p6rt opened this issue Sep 28, 2017 · 6 comments
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Don't put Mexico and Texas in opposition in Perl 6 jargon #6556

p6rt opened this issue Sep 28, 2017 · 6 comments

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#132179 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT132179$

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

From @briandfoy

And, that's not bake any other geopolitical oppositions into the
language either. The Texas metaphor was a joke about that an American
stereotype and you shouldn't go further with it.

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132176

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

From @zoffixznet

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06​:44​:12 -0700, comdog wrote​:

And, that's not bake any other geopolitical oppositions into the
language either. The Texas metaphor was a joke about that an American
stereotype and you shouldn't go further with it.

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132176

Thanks. Removed[^1] the only mention of them in source/docs I could find and mentioned this Issue on the dev chat.

[1] rakudo/rakudo@a89add0bf8

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

@zoffixznet - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

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p6rt commented Sep 28, 2017

From @toolforger

Am 28.09.2017 um 15​:44 schrieb brian d foy (via RT)​:

And, that's not bake any other geopolitical oppositions into the
language either. The Texas metaphor was a joke about that an American
stereotype and you shouldn't go further with it.

Given that even good-natured humor occasionally gets misunderstood, and
that it is readily weaponized, I am proposing to replace "Texas" with
"ASCII".
I recognize it's dull, but better dull than being drawn into quarrels
that have nothing to do with Perl. (YMMV.)

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p6rt commented Sep 29, 2017

From @zoffixznet

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13​:20​:50 -0700, jo@​durchholz.org wrote​:

Am 28.09.2017 um 15​:44 schrieb brian d foy (via RT)​:

And, that's not bake any other geopolitical oppositions into the
language either. The Texas metaphor was a joke about that an American
stereotype and you shouldn't go further with it.

Given that even good-natured humor occasionally gets misunderstood, and
that it is readily weaponized, I am proposing to replace "Texas" with
"ASCII".
I recognize it's dull, but better dull than being drawn into quarrels
that have nothing to do with Perl. (YMMV.)

I'm +1. It'd also be a clearer term.

I opened a doc Issue for this, since this term is largely used in our docs​: Raku/doc#1584

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