Re: RFMs (Requests for modification) on the List of UCD-words

From: Frederic V. Hessman <hessman-at-Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:59:55 +0200


Just a few points:

Why phys.matter.dark and phys.DarkEnergy rather than phys.DarkMatter and phys.energy.dark?

I'm confused again about the question of capitalizations: e.g. why phys.DarkEnergy but phys.cosmology.hubble rather than phys.darkEnergy and phys.cosmology.Hubble (or phys.cosmology.hubbleConstant)? Yes, this is a can of worms (e.g. em.uv instead of em.UV), but there should at least be some system (e.g. if you normally write things capitalized, then capitalize, e.g. UV instead of uv, Hubble instead of hubble).

obs.calib.flat.sky
obs.calib.flat.dome
obs.calib.flat.internal
phys.particle.neutrino		(there are neutrino telescopes)

Solution (c) using composite UCD's will be cumbersome: phot.flux.perDecade is then phot.flux;em.decade?

I'm also confused again about why we have stat.probability (11 letters) and time.duration (8) but comp.sim, and time.expo rather than stat.prob, time.dur, comp.simulation (10 letters) and time.exposure (8). Remind me why we sometimes need to save a few bytes of memory by using occational abbreviations (independent of the length) and can't simply spell things out .... ;-)

Rick         



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