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Subject: Re: Whiteholes and blackholes
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 23:28:41 -0800
From: Sean M. Burke <[email protected]>
To: Michael G Schwern <[email protected]>
CC: Walter Bright <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
On 05/23/2010 04:58 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On 2010.5.23 4:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
I've been looking for the origin of the terms as it applies to classes,
as in:
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Class-BlackHole-0.04/lib/Class/BlackHole.pm
I think I just came up with the name out of the blue.
Common-ish expression... "I tried emailing it to you but I guess it
disappeared into a black hole" maybe?
I'm almost totally sure that I knew of no pattern by that time, since,
I was, and am, pretty hazy on patterns or their nomenclature.
Also... I think it was Mark-Jason Dominus who said something like:
patterns are mostly just you manually making up for what your language
should be smart enough to do in a line or two, or not be so deficient
as to need them at all. (But fact-check that-- he might have said the
exact reverse, or said it about something else, I dunno.)
I like pie.
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