[PATCH 2 of 2 STABLE] mq: rename the --mq option to --queue

Laurens Holst laurens.nospam at grauw.nl
Thu Mar 4 18:00:44 CST 2010


Op 5-3-2010 0:23, Brendan Cully schreef:
> The advantage of 'queue' over 'mq' is that it's an English word. But
> I'm not really sure that's much of an advantage. Imagine these
> conversations with a new Hg user:
>
> Q: What do you think the MQ extension does?
> A: No idea.
>
> Q: What do you think the Queue extension does?
> A: No idea.
>    

Some more silly arguments; I frequently see queue being written as 
either qeueu or simply ‘que’. For many people it is a difficult word to 
write correctly. I guess having to alternate two letters twice doesn’t 
exactly help the fast typer either, easy to get the rhythm wrong and 
make a typo.

~Laurens

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Laurens Holst, developer, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Website: www.grauw.nl. Backbase employee; www.backbase.com


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