project is used too - it's a method returning the current project. define comes from Rake.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:33, redstun <[email protected]> wrote: > Why the word 'define' is chosen to create a project? > > The word 'define' makes me thinking I'm creating a ruby method, rather than > a project, because it's too close to ruby keyword 'def'. Even if 'def' is > not a ruby keyword, 'define' really means define anything, much more than > just a project. > > And I always feel it's natural to define a project with the word 'project', > rather than the word 'define'. Probably we have 'project' used every > elsewhere, such as Ant, Maven, Java IDEs, MS Visual Studios, anything else? > > Although 'define' cannot be dropped, can we just allow the word 'project' > be > used to create a project by something like method alias? >
