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Re: Naming conventions
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lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:56:45 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Brian Lanning writes:
In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:

TLG would be smart to adopt our nomenclature. Not Todd's but rather LDraw's
nomenclature. Warts and all.

Agreed.  It's a very good naming convention.  As clear as one could get under
the circumstances.

As opposed to the naming conventions that LEGO has used internally for years?

How about, instead of suggesting that LEGO change the way they refer to parts,
why not ask them to share *their* naming conventions with the AFOL community?

JohnG, GMLTC (and former LEGO employee)
  (yea, remove the '.nospam' to reply, but be forwarned - I'll be away from my
desk for several days, so I probably won't reply to you very quickly...)



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  Re: Naming conventions
 
(...) Do they have an internal naming convention? Is it in english or danish? Why are the thin walls train windows according to them? They were used in a lot of places. I doubt they have anything that formal. If they do, I'd certainly like to hear (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Naming conventions
 
(...) Hey, that'd be great... if they provide pictures to go along with the part names, like Partsref. In the meantime, Partsref seems to me to be the most useful thing out there to make sure we're all talking about the same part. Lego can call (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Naming conventions
 
(...) That would be fine too... IF it was one rather than many, and IF it was shared with us. ++Lar (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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(...) here (...) And (...) Good point. Only the serious would want those quantities. (...) It wasn't really meant to be a sound line of reasoning. I'm just being annoying. However silly it is, while viewing the big picture, to call it a train (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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