Talk:alloc

RFD discussion: February–March 2024

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alloc

Rfd-sense: Etymology 1. a term in one or other computer language. I thought we don't keep these. DCDuring (talk) 15:11, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

(Keep? see below). It's not just a keyword that occurs in code: it is used in English. "You need to alloc 40 bytes here, Fred." Equinox ◑ 16:21, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Equinox Can't you use quite a lot of keywords as verbs like this? I'm not saying that's a reason we shouldn't include them, but you have a lot more experience of this than me. Theknightwho (talk) 16:23, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

@Theknightwho: Yes, but there is some kind of line. I mean if I say "this function has got two IHttpHandlers" then that's hopefully not includable, but if I say "an enum can have multiple names representing the same value" then it probably is, because the word seems to be used to describe the thing, rather than to quote the literal text. We have an entry for lambda and would not object to "this word contains two lambdas". However, having searched Google Books a bit more, it does seem that the citations for alloc seem to refer to an actual keyword or function, and may not be as generic as I imagined. In that case, send to RFV to find citations that everybody will accept. See also malloc, which is a C function (not technically a keyword) but really is very often used as a verb. Equinox ◑ 05:31, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Keep. Used in English as a real word. CitationsFreak (talk) 20:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Keep. Ioaxxere (talk) 21:55, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Send to RFV as suggested by Equinox. This is an RFV issue. — Sgconlaw (talk) 18:26, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Converted to RFV. — Sgconlaw (talk) 06:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)