From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T06:32:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes

On 5/8/05, Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@comcast.net> wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> >
> > Sterile means "Not producing or incapable of producing offspring",
> > right?  The word suggest the (class-like) object cannot create its
> > instances.
> 
> Mind you, when Ilias is active in a thread, I generally delete it
> without a second look.  So, I honestly don't expect many people to see
> this, but since Matz is still looking for meaningful terminology...
> 
> I humbly suggest "uniclass".  Sounds sort of like "eunuch-class",
> implying sterility, and also like "unique-class", which follows because
> there is at most one of these per object.  It also reminds me of
> "Unibrow" from the Austin Powers series, but that is neither here nor there.

+1 

'unique' and 'custom' were my favorites, but I like the idea of a new
word, and the mnemonics you offered.
 
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