On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 12:12 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
It's easier to completely remove "master" to remove mentions of "master/slave" and to remove the non-gender neutral "master" than it would be to do half of that. Two birds, one stone.
Haha. I see what you did there. But no, we're not talking about removing the "non-gender neutral master" either. Yes, there is a gender-specific word "master" which is also a homonym of the one in "master/slave". No, that isn't the one which is used when we say "the master copy" or "the master branch". Besides, we can't use "mainline" anyway, as that is a reference to intravenous drug taking and since we can't be expected tell homonyms apart or pass basic primary school comprehension exercises by applying our knowledge of context to the words we see, we'll *obviously* interpret all instances of the word "mainline" as references to drugs... right?
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