Proposal: let's call a `many-item pointer` a `mointer` from now on

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Rationale: Python uses double underscores, commonly called dunders, so why not call a many-item pointer a mointer instead?

It is unique to Zig, doesn’t have any meaning to get confused, it is shorter which makes it easy to talk about it and it gives you a chuckle every time you think about it, so why not?

Heck, we can even call it moooointer and use :love_you_gesture:.
Maybe i should have saved this for April next year, lol.

I’m joking of course. I couldn’t find any category for fooling around but i do want to know if we have a short name for this.

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i often call them multi pointers.

I think Brainstorming and language fit best.

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thanks. i edited the post.

so you didn’t like mointers? lol.

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Counterpoint, snakes eat iguanas and we shouldn’t be listening to the enemy.

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yea, but ours is ziguana. it already transcended the known planet. it even has a space suit, lol.

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Let’s not stop here, and call pointers-to-one “oneters”, c-pointers “cointers”, pointers-to-const “consters”, etc.

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Pardon my French — it’s spelled very close to ‘moniteur’

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This means a mointer-to-const must be called a “monster”

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Fully on board except this part. Surely that mo(o)niker should be exclusively reserved for CoW pointers.

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Found the esperanto speaker :slight_smile:
forĝejo, kafejo, sportejo…

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Also found a Toki Pona speaker!

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Vortkunmetludejo…

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niiice, i didn’t think about that, i’m all in.

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hmm, you are absolutely right.

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This is how I find out “dunders” stands for double unders. I can’t believe it.

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What about mipter or minter (skip the o so the i 's collapse)? oi is a hard set of vowels to say in sequence.