"Bin" "Slot" "Ref" Though, "Box" is short, self-explanatory and fills the other criterias aswell.
Merry Christmas /Viktor On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Caoyuan <dcaoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > and "Pack" ? > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Marc Boschma > <marc+lift...@boschma.cx<marc%2blift...@boschma.cx>> > 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Viktor Klang Senior Systems Analyst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
