Reword javap filtering options #3680
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"To filter out" means remove, and, therefore, has the exact opposite meaning of what the example shows. But "filter" is kind of an ambiguous word when it comes to what's removed and what's left, not to mention which you are interested in (if you filter water to drink that's one thing, if you filter water to mine gold, that's another), so I'm avoiding it altogether and going for some unambiguous.
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Thanks. I didn't write that text, but I did have a period in which I would wake up in a cold sweat from a nightmare in which I could never remember if it meant filter in or filter out. I blame Brita. When I realized that "cull" is ambiguous in the same way, I stopped worrying. If it's any solace, I noticed that the feature broke at some point. I especially notice it when I go looking for an anonfun. How I hate anonfuns now. They used to be fun. |
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The other text change (unrelated to this PR) is that retronym enabled |
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Thanks. How do you feel about moving the gh-pages branch to https://github.com/scala/scala.github.com? |
Reword javap filtering options
"To filter out" means remove, and, therefore, has the exact opposite meaning of what the example shows. But "filter" is kind of an ambiguous word when it comes to what's removed and what's left, not to mention which you are interested in (if you filter water to drink that's one thing, if you filter water to mine gold, that's another), so I'm avoiding it altogether and going for some unambiguous.