From: Software Scavenger
Subject: Pronunciation of let* do* etc.
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:30:46 +0000
Message-ID: <a6789134.0112290930.4ed9670a@posting.google.com>

How do you pronounce the * in let* etc. when discussing your code with
another Lisp programmer?

• Re: Pronunciation of let* do* etc. Karsten Poeck
  • Re: Pronunciation of let* do* etc. Brian P Templeton

From: Karsten Poeck
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of let* do* etc.
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:43:37 +0000
Message-ID: <a0l6fe$8go$1@news.wanadoo.es>

Should be let-star (or let-Stern if you talk to a German Lisp programmer)

Karsten
"Software Scavenger" <··········@mailandnews.com> wrote in message
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> How do you pronounce the * in let* etc. when discussing your code with
> another Lisp programmer?

From: Brian P Templeton
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of let* do* etc.
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 00:59:23 +0000
Message-ID: <87advve26l.fsf@tunes.org>

"Karsten Poeck" <······@terra.es> writes:

> Should be let-star (or let-Stern if you talk to a German Lisp programmer)
> 
Some alternatives include (from the Jargon File):
     ________________
____/ `jargon ascii' \________________________________________________
| *
|      Common: star; [{splat}]; <asterisk>.  Rare: wildcard; gear;
|      dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see {glob});
|      {Nathan Hale}.
|_____________________________________________________________________

> Karsten
> "Software Scavenger" <··········@mailandnews.com> wrote in message
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>> How do you pronounce the * in let* etc. when discussing your code with
>> another Lisp programmer?
> 
> 

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