[PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] style guide idea: [send foo] versus [; foo(
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at eds.org>, "Matt Barber" <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>, pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 9:15 PM
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > I understand the point of making that information
> available, but once you start describing a particular pd
> concept, don't you stick to one term for the sake of
> clarity?
> 
> Well, ideally, perhaps... but I think that it's
> somewhat hard to do. Perhaps more so when teaching in French
> (or any other language apart from English), because then you
> have to deal both with the synonyms in French and the
> synonyms in English at the same time.

At least in English, which is all I've taught in, it's merely a practical matter of using one consistent term instead of using many interchangeably.

-Jonathan

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