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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Fabien COELHO <[email protected]>
Cc: Corey Huinker <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add A Glossary
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:55:07 +0900
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911090904410.31344@lancre>
References: <CADkLM=eP6HOeqDjn0FdXuGRusQu4oWH_LFsKjjafmhvWD=aSpQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<alpine.DEB.2.21.1911090904410.31344@lancre>

On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> On principle, I'm fine with having a glossary, i.e. word definitions, which
> are expected to be rather stable in the long run.
> 
> I'm wondering whether the effort would not be made redundant by other
> on-line effort such as wikipedia, wiktionary, stackoverflow, standards,
> whatever.
> 
> When explaining something, the teacher I am usually provides some level of
> example. This may or may not be appropriate there.

That's exactly a good reason for being a reviewer here.  You have
quite some insight here.

> I'd consider making SQL keywords uppercase.
> 
> Developing that is a significant undertaking. Do we have the available
> energy?

It seems like this could be a good idea, still the patch has been
waiting on his author for more than two weeks now, so I have marked it
as returned with feedback.
--
Michael


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