I would stick with reader. Extractor might confuse people. That a reader is 
incomplete should be stated in the comment
Stefan

Am Thursday 02 November 2006 11:02 schrieb Egon Willighagen:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like comments on the following proposal:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----- Rename the *Reader IO classes to *Extractor
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----
>
> The reason is that most of our 'Reader's actually do not read the full
> format, but just a subsection of it. Many readers to lists what the do and
> do not read, but 'extractor' might make more clear that we indeed only
> extract bits from those files.
>
> The goal is really to have a reader, with support for the full format, but
> that is, unfortunately, not reality for many extractors we have. I think
> only XYZReader is really a Reader.
>
> Would this rename make things more clear?
>
> Egon

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