and "Pack" ?

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Marc Boschma <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I know David has resigned to keeping 'Can', but wouldn't 'Jar' be an
> alternative? That way Empty and Full still make sense...
>
> Initially I thought 'Tin' sounded better but I recognise that term
> wouldn't be as universal.
>
> Marc
>
> On 26/12/2008, at 4:14 AM, Michael Campbell wrote:
>
>>
>> David Pollak wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Over the year that Lift has had Can[T] as a replacement for Scala's
>>> Option[T], the name "Can" has required a lot of explaining.
>>
>>
>> I've never liked "Can" as a name; always thinking that the opposite
>> of one
>> should be a "Can't".   I'm sure it's my own issue to solve, but it's
>> cognitively dissonant to me.
>>
>> Any other container name works better for me, although of the ones
>> you listed,
>> I like "Box".
>>
>>
>> --
>> Twitter:  http://twitter.com/campbellmichael
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>

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