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jasonbell07:04:24

morning morning

thomas08:04:49

morning... day off because it is Kingsday 👑

rhinocratic09:04:51

The English language seems to lack a verb meaning "to make immutable" (unless I've overlooked one, which is entirely possible). Possible candidates like "freeze", "petrify" etc. don't really seem to fit the bill. :thinking_face:

danm09:04:25

freeze/thaw is generally used for serialisation rather than immutability. Hmm...

Rachel Westmacott09:04:03

“set” would be good were it not already overloaded

rhinocratic09:04:59

Congeal, maybe?

Rachel Westmacott09:04:16

I would humbly suggest “immutable-ise”, because it’s meaning will be obvious.

yogidevbear09:04:32

¯\(ツ)

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rhinocratic09:04:32

Perhaps a coinage is needed - "immutate" sounds good, since it's of a similar pattern to "commutate".

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3Jane09:04:34

I like “pickling”, but you could also “mummify” 😉

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sundarj09:04:10

what about something more abstract, like 'valueize'

rhinocratic09:04:03

That's a possibility. :thinking_face:

Rachel Westmacott09:04:28

‘concrete-ise’?

sundarj09:04:56

immobilise could work

rhinocratic09:04:40

I should perhaps say that I haven't got a pressing need for such a word - my mind was just idly wandering, perhaps owing to lack of caffeine. 🙂

dominicm10:04:13

English sucks

rhinocratic10:04:46

The German approach makes sense - just smash lots of small words together into one big one. A composable language.

alexlynham10:04:16

when you talk about edges in a graph or network, you reify them when you formalise them into fixed meaning

dominicm10:04:11

What you need is small composable modifiers, which act on larger root words.

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alexlynham10:04:36

I guess when we have compound meaning it's usually at the granularity of a phrase

alexlynham10:04:30

is there an emoji for immutability?

alexlynham10:04:08

is that a unicode standard emoji? 😛 troll

otfrom10:04:51

English is a great language. If it doesn't have a word it just invades a country that has it (or if you go back far enough gets invaded) and steals the word from them

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alexlynham10:04:40

pajamas and bungalow from my people

alexlynham10:04:49

and gobshite, weirdly

yogidevbear11:04:24

@agile_geek I see you're getting some publicity in #news-and-articles

yogidevbear11:04:38

That's a very thorough article. How long did you spend writing it @agile_geek?

agile_geek20:05:48

I started thinking about it in September...when I was in a dark place. I started writing it in late October but I kept walking away from it and coming back to it occasionally. Not really happy with it as it rambles but I needed to let it out in the wild and didn't know how to improve it.

yogidevbear20:05:59

I think it was pretty articulate. Really enjoyed all the pun titles :)

agile_geek20:05:13

That article was light on puns... You should read the ones on TDD!

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3Jane21:04:14

I’m unreasonably excited about this: http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Public/VisitUs.html

3Jane21:04:36

separately from “hey, a particle accelerator”, these guys have helped with the recent discovery of plastic-digesting enzyme