On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 20:17 +0000, Gordon Sim wrote:
> On 04/03/16 20:09, Alan Conway wrote:
> > I'm not crazy about 'treatment' but please not "type" or "class".
> > They
> > are horribly over-used and are reserved words in many contexts, the
> > AMQP management spec is just one.
> 
> They are used a lot (I wouldn't say 'over-used' myself) because 
> categorising things is such a common and vital requirement. 

Exactly why words like "type", "category", "sort", "kind", "class" etc.
should be weapons of last resort. Most things can be categorized along
multiple dimensions: a multicast route is a type of route, a direct
route is a type of route. So I prefer path, direction, treatment,
distribution etc. that hint at what type of type you are specifying.


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