[Lazarus] "Figures" in code explorer

[Martin Friebe]

Alexander Klenin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 22:02, Mattias Gaertner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>   
>>> A few questions/suggestions for improvement:
>>> 1) Where did the name came from? It is totally meaningless for me.
>>>       
>> See http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/figure?view=uk
>>     
>
> Hm. I'll quote that:
>   
>> figure, noun:
>> 1 a number or numerical symbol.
>> 2 an amount of money.
>> 3 a person’s bodily shape, especially that of a woman.
>> 4 a person seen indistinctly.
>> 5 an artistic representation of a human or animal form.
>> 6 a shape defined by one or more lines.
>> 7 a diagram or illustrative drawing.
>> 8 (Music) a short succession of notes producing a single impression.
>>     
>
> Not one meaning correspond to 'a hint about possible problem in the code'.
>   
Hm, while some of them probably are most likely to be used to find 
possible issues, there is no need to see them as an "problem indicator" 
only.
So point 1 is "correct" as they are a collecion of numbers "figures"

Still, maybe they would be better named as "statistics"? (maybe 
"analytics" ?)

>>>   Maybe 'Stylistic notes' or 'Style' or something along these lines?
>>>       
>> Not all are about style.
>>     
>
> At least it will give user a vague idea what it is ;-)
> How about simply 'hints'?
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