I think “analytic’ sounds better then the “ones in the middle”.
Susan
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 6:48 AM, Dan Debrunner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:55 PM, Julia Bamford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I'm working on a conceptual
>> overview that will help people understand Quarks terminology.
>>
>> I'm working from this doc that Dan pointed me to a few weeks ago:
>> https://github.com/quarks-edge/quarks/wiki/Quarks-Etiao-Runtime
>>
>> However, when I compare that to the descriptions for the quarks.oplet.core
>> package, I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect.
>>
>> I see:
>> Source
>> Sink
>> Peek
>>
>> But I don't see:
>> Process, unless it's now called process source.
>
> The four types of oplets in the wiki page are not specific oplet kinds (or
> class names), maybe "categories" would have been a better term to use.
>
> So Filter and Map oplets are "processing" oplets, they process incoming
> streams and produce outgoing streams.
>
> If anyone has a better term than "processing" please share, other options are
> "the ones in the middle" :-) or maybe "analytic".
>
> Dan.
