Ceci n'est pas un objet

[PhDP]

I love the reference to "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" in the readme, but "objet" is masculine (makes no sense but yeah, that's French), so it should be "Ceci n'est pas un objet". I don't want to be a grammar nazi, I hate French grammar, just thought you might want to know :P

Ref: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/objet

[rollbear]

Danm, and I even ran that past an ex colleague who is French. Oh, well. I'll fix it.

[francoisgenolini]

I did spot this but it did not offend me ;-) I am used to hear British people attempt to talk to me in French, and I am glad enough that they make the effort, so I let these kind of mistakes go unchallenged.

If you wanted to keep the feminine ("une") you could write:
<< ceci n'est pas une chose>>
which actually would be much more informative, as it would literally and correctly illustrate the intention of the diagram: a mocked object (the subject of the illustration is a UML object diagram of an instance of a Mock class) is not a "thing", but a straw man or proxy for one of the interfaces that the class might support.

Regards,

Francois

[rollbear]

Thanks. I have to think about that. On the one hand I love your version, and the explanation for it. On the other hand, "objet," is a word I expect programmers who don't know French at all (like me) still understand.

If I go with "ceci n'est pas une chose," may I quote you in the FAQ?

[francoisgenolini]

Hi,

Yes please do as you want.
This was not really a suggestion, just nitpicking.
I did like “objet” as indeed it might look similar to the word “object”.
“Chose” is actually not an academically relevant word: my teachers always told me to think of an appropriate word instead of just calling everything a “thing”. Good for colloquial exchanges, not appropriate for competent technical writing.

Kind Regards,

[rollbear]

Fixed. No new release tag for this alone, but at least viewing the README.md, or the cheat sheet PDF on the main github page looks OK now.

[rollbear]

Closing now with release v17.