[Simon]

My feeling is that if a program has to define "Lifetime" then I suggest that a better idea would be to stop using the term.

Words like Lifetime should have a generally-accepted meaning and if you don't mean that, then don't use the word at all. Or at least anyone who does use it to mean anything but the accepted meaning should have to put a HUGE ASTERISK next to the word every single place it appears and have to put their "definition" of Lifetime* on the bottom of every single page on which the term appears.

I don't like the "1984" aspect of allowing more Newspeak to creep into our business. Using a 'definition' to narrow what a word like Lifetime would otherwise mean is not something I think we should allow anyone to do.


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