Tim Larson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Marc Portier wrote:
Antonio Gallardo wrote:
It would be fine. While starting using Cforms I often found myself asking by the right name. I cannot stop thinking in the repeater as a List.
yes, a list of rows
Not sure if this is what you are talking about, but the name "repeater" has never quite sat well with me. When I explain it to people they look at me funny until I break down and say "it's a table!". This is not quite right, since it does much more than act as a static table, but do you have any ideas for a clearer/more intuitive name for it?
LOL, I like the story :-)
on my side though I've never quite questioned the repeater-name...
in fact I really don't remember if it was Bruno or me who first started calling it that, but I can't remember any unease on his or my side about it: we both must be missing some comparable type of braincells :-)
in any case, I would not switch to 'table' since it has an obvious association to presentation in terms of both the html table and some view of a grid of rows and columns which is doing unjustice to the fact that it is really just 'repeating' :-)
Peter's mail did start me thinking on the fact that our repeater is doing two things:
1. define a struct
2. allow multiple instances of that struct in it
I don't know where this observation is leading me yet though ...
in any case, if there is more people that do have the proclaimed we-cant-parse-repeater-braincells let them all be assured I'm quite open to alternative names for it
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