I was under the impression that grafting was used more often for
attaching a foreign branch (e.g., to make a pear grow on an apple
tree) than for repair. I'm probably wrong about this.
Still, in a graft, the thing being grafted on exists and is attached
to the tree. The algorithm in question involves (re)opening a channel
for the tree to grow into, not attaching something.
Just my increasingly digressive thoughts...
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
On May 25, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
Nick Wedd wrote:
I prefer "unprune" to "graft".
"Graft" implies adding something to a tree which does not
naturally belong there.
Not "naturally"?
Consider a tree, to which you, the tree surgeon, have taken a pair
of shears,
and lopped off a branch. What has been pruned, has been pruned.
Q. By what method will you now re-attach that branch to the tree?
A. By grafting.
"Unprune" suggests that there is a branch which was implicitly
there all along, you earlier decided not to consider it, but you
have now reversed that decision.
Just as there was a branch, both implicitily and explicitly, that
you decided
to lop off with your shears. Now that you have decided you didn't
really want
to lop it off, and reversed your decision, by what method will you
re-attach it?
Grafting.
If you want to reject "unprune" because it "isn't a word", then
use "grow" or "widen", which suggest adding something which is
naturally part of that tree.
If you want to reject "graft" you'll have to come up with a more
convincing argument.
I assert, further, that the terms "scion" and "stock" could be
given explicit
technical definitions in this context.
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