Usage of the word "punning"

[jayphelps]

I think it's mostly apparent what the Reason docs mean by "punning", but I'm going to guess it's very unlikely most people reading the docs would have heard the term. I hadn't, so I google'd and very few references of it can be found and they're not easy to find if you don't include keywords like "field" or "record".

Curious if my perception is wrong? Admittedly, I've never worked with OCaml people so I wouldn't be as familiar with related parlance.

[chenglou]

Punning is a term we share with JS. Not sure what term we should use instead. I think we should use the term (because it's one of those that are unambiguous and very meaningful once you learn it), but state upfront what it means in this case. What do you think?

[jayphelps]

@chenglou have a handy example where the term "punning" is used in the JS community?

[chenglou]

I indeed can't find any example right now. But it's a term that's valuable to learn. We should document it more clearly then

[jayphelps]

That sounds good to me too. I agree it's a very valuable term I wish was more known.

[chenglou]

Thanks! Will go out in the next doc release

[barttenbrinke]

5 years and this is still the only good example that explains Javascript punning :) 👍