[Offtopic] Inferencing (Was: Re: packages, not package systems (was Taking Ownership of Squeak(WAS Re: Python at Disney)))

Doug Way dway at riskmetrics.com
Sat Mar 17 05:13:34 UTC 2001


Russell Allen wrote:
> 
> Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > (Oo, it'd be fun if Squeak did mild inferencing to determine where to slot
> > a change, and maybe give me a little popup for confirmation.)
> 
> I'll have you know that I had a academic paper rejected for a conference
> just the other day because, amongst other reasons:
> 
> > There is no English word "inferencing". The English word is "inference"
> 
> So let this be a lesson to you.

I thought that "type inferencing" was the more or less standard term for this, despite its ungrammaticality. (yes, I just made up that last word :) )  Or perhaps this term is only used in a few Smalltalk circles, such as this list?  Perhaps "type inferring" would be better...

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com





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