On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, at 04:07 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
Just bouncing an idea around; it seems that there's a fair amount of
confusion / fuzziness caused by the term 'stateful'. Would people
prefer the term 'incremental'?
I.e., instead of a "stateful feed", it would be an "incremental feed";
fh:stateful would become fh:incremental.
Worth it?
I think it's worth seeing if a term can be found that has a more
intuitively understandable meaning. It might be helpful to explore the
kinds of names that describe non-stateful feeds too--if a better term
can be found for that, it could be used instead (and just reverse true
& false). Brainstorming a little:
Stateful: sliding window, most recent segment, segment, stream, entry
stream, appendable, appending, augmentable, augmenting
Non-stateful: uh...stateful? ("what you just downloaded represents the
current state of the entire feed"), current state, current, snapshot,
fixed entry, set entry, replacable, replacing, entry replacing,
non-appending, non-augmenting
