- From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:17:22 -0500
- To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
Joseph Kesselman writes: > As an alternative to "other node", we could also consider "parameter node" > or "node passed as a parameter"... a bit more verbose but avoids any > question about the intent. Couldn't the name of the parameter be used? This seems an easy way to keep the text both simple and clear. > (I'd almost be tempted to render "this" in boldface when we're using it as > a keyword to signify the-node-which-is-performing-the-operation, but I > don't think I can see the WG on that idea.) Ugh. It would have to be defined somewhere as well; not all languages prefer "this" as the name for the object on which the method is being called. (Of course, I don't know of any really good way to refer to that object with having a defined keyword of some sort in the text.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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