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(Now) official repository of the SNES assembler Asar, originally created by Alcaro
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fix BRL documented syntax #284

Closed jeffythedragonslayer closed 1 year ago

RPGHacker commented 1 year ago

Obsoleted by https://github.com/RPGHacker/asar/commit/2b29a7d988837f819c20271322e2688ba364bb5b.

jeffythedragonslayer commented 1 year ago

Thanks. Please say "overcome by events" next time.

RPGHacker commented 1 year ago

overcome by events

What's that even supposed to mean?

jeffythedragonslayer commented 1 year ago

It means "the problem this ticket is about has been overcome some other way."

RPGHacker commented 1 year ago

But "overcome some other way" is literally one of the meanings of "obsoleted", isn't it? 🥲 At least that's how I've always used the word.

jeffythedragonslayer commented 1 year ago

Where I come from, calling someone's ticket "obsolete" is considered rude.

You could also say "overtaken by events" or OBE:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/When-does-it-make-sense-to-OBE-an-issue-vs-deleting-it-from-the/qaq-p/1895174

RPGHacker commented 1 year ago

Where specifically would "where I come from" be? And how exactly is it considered rude there? It's the first time I'm hearing this, so it doesn't seem to be a universal thing, at least. I've also never heard about "OBE" before today, so it doesn't seem to be quite that widespread. I have my doubts that everyone immediately understands what it means.

Don't take this as me being insistent on sticking with my current terminology - I don't want to be rude to people if it can be avoided. But I at least need to understand where people are coming from before I change the way I speak. At least from my perspective, "obsolete" is just formal progamming talk, and if it's indeed just some regions where it's considered offensive, I don't think people in other places necessarily need to ditch the word because of that.

jeffythedragonslayer commented 1 year ago

No worries! I have heard "overcome by events" when talking about tickets at multiple software companies I've worked at, so I know it's a real thing I just figured you didn't hear it before. It's really no big deal but I did want speak up because calling an attempted fix "obsolete" can come off as unappreciative that someone is trying to get up to speed on the project, and I don't think too many people here enjoy hearing the SNES described that way, for example.

RPGHacker commented 1 year ago

Alright, acknowledged. I can definitely see how "obsolete" can come of as rude in some contexts - I just don't necessarily see the word itself as rude, and in this particular context I wouldn't consider it that, since we're talking about pretty quick and trivial fix here. It'd certainly be a different story if this were a bigger pull request with a larger time investment - but I reckon this only took a few minutes at most, right?

Nevertheless, I can see where you're coming from, so I'll be more mindful.

jeffythedragonslayer commented 1 year ago

Yeah for this one the point of the fix was less about people not knowing how to use BRL and more about, when things have mistakes they look unmaintained people may think it the project is obsolete. 😉

jeffythedragonslayer commented 8 months ago

An example of OBE sighted in the wild:

https://archive.org/details/6502UsersManual/page/n14

RPGHacker commented 8 months ago

Acknowledged! 🙂 (Though to be fair, that book is from 1984 - when it was released, I wasn't even born yet, so it doesn't necessarily say much about how common the term is nowadays)

jeffythedragonslayer commented 8 months ago

Oh, I'm not still upset or anything. I was having a lot of problems with haters when I opened this and tend to take things personally.

Just stumbled upon the phrase again and wanted to share.