From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T06:50:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Article: Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

Douglas Livingstone wrote:
> On 4/21/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
>>>I like 'shadow class', since you can think of it as shadowing the #class
>>>class. 'Eigenclass' was nice too, since 'eigen' has a long and
>>>honourable tradition of being borrowed into English words.
>>
>>I think that might happen sometimes for some particular reason having
>>to do with the history of usage, but just translating into German out
>>of the blue seems peculiar to me.
>>
> 
> 
> But don't you know that random german words are "supremely chique.
> handsome beyond description. geeky, yet bodaciously amazing"? [1]

So long as it has an umlaut,  I'm happy.

R�by: For Heavy Metal Coding


Why not use Japanese words or prefixes?


James