# Re: META: Ruby Talk Noise/Signal

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-meta-ruby-talk-noise-signal/66268>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 24, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-meta-ruby-talk-noise-signal/66268 "2006-08-24T14:55:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-meta-ruby-talk-noise-signal/66268/1 "2006-08-24T14:55:56Z")

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An Addendum

Hello,

I just noticed a second bracketed prepending [PROPOSAL] and realised  
that I was on about were nouns and the bracketed stuff are adjectives,  
or possibly verbs.

[ANN] and [PROPOSAL] seem like adjectives to me because they are  
describing the kind of posting, but not what class of thing the  
announcement or proposal is about.

So, that would tend to make NEWLIB redundant because it is not simply  
a noun because it describes state. However, it might be useful anyway  
to use both NEWLIB:[ANN] and LIB:[ANN]. I’m not sure, so I’ll let  
that one through to the keeper for now.

t

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-meta-ruby-talk-noise-signal/66268/2 "2006-08-24T16:14:07Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> …  
> So, that would tend to make NEWLIB redundant because it is not simply a  
> noun because it describes state. However, it might be useful anyway to  
> use both NEWLIB:[ANN] and LIB:[ANN]. I’m not sure, so I’ll let that one  
> through to the keeper for now.

That’s even more work.

–  
James B.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally  
for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman  
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)