Topic: Pronouncing AutoLISP

[zoltan]

itoa - Integer to Atom
atof - Atom to Float

(i think)

[jonesy]

Great thread!

How about these?

atof  = a-t-o-f
getkword = get key word *yawn*
itoa = i-t-o-a

atof = hat off
getkword= get keyword
itoa = iota

(not that I do any programming... I just look at other peoples to see if I can figure out what does what)

[Sdoman]

itoa - Integer to Atom
atof - Atom to Float

(i think)

Another variant:
atof - Ascii to Floating, meaning convert string to real (floating point) number

[Sdoman]

atof = hat off
getkword= get keyword
itoa = iota

(not that I do any programming... I just look at other peoples to see if I can figure out what does what)

Hat Off and Iota !  Thanks for the great humor Jonesy.

[daron]

Most of the previous one's I'd pronounce as others have stated, except:
princ = prink

[Lee Mac]

Just stumbled across this great thread and thought I'd add my own pronunciations for some common AutoLISP functions:

cdr        = C-D-R
cadr       = C-A-D-R
cdar       = C-D-A-R
etc.

atof       = a-tov
atoi       = A-toy
itoa       = I-T-O-A
rtos       = R-toz
distof     = diss-tov

defun      = D-fun
setq       = set-Q
mapcar     = map-car
lambda     = lamb-dah
logior     = log-I-or
progn      = prog-n

princ      = prink
prin1      = prin-one
terpri     = terr-pree
textscr    = text-screen

strcase    = string-case
strcat     = string-cat
strlen     = string-length
substr     = sub-string
wcmatch    = W-C-match

tblnext    = table-next
tblobjname = table-object-name
tblsearch  = table-search

vlax-*     = V-lax (as in relax)
vl-*       = V-L
vlr-       = V-L-R

Print-see or Print-cee sounds good.  But I wonder what the "C" is for?  Where is Print-A and Print-B?

Since princ is designed to output data that is 'intended to look good for people', I would guess that the 'c' stands for 'console', i.e. print to console?

I guess the "N" in Progn confused me.  Group N lines?

I believe progn is the n^th extension of the prog1 & prog2 functions found in Common LISP, to evaluate all n supplied expressions.

atof  = perhaps it would have been more appropriate for the authors of AutoLISP to have named this function stor for string-to-real

itoa = likewise, itos for integer-to-string would have been better imo.

As suggested by others, I understood atof to be a shortening of ASCII to float; similarly, itoa as integer to ASCII; however, for me, the inconsistency lies with the rtos & distof functions... by the same logic, I would have thought rtos (real to string) should be ftoa (float to ASCII), or that either distof (distance to float I presume?) or atof should instead be stor (string to real) as you've suggested.

Interesting thread