>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Jari> It would be interesting to know why not. These magic variables are hard Jari> to read and remember without consulting the manual pages. Because it was observed over time that the aliases were *also* hard to remember without consulting the manpages. :) So you were merely trading one problem for another, and since far more code is out there that does *not* use English than does, we agreed that use English was an interesting but failed experiment. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html