From: flaig@...
Date: 2005-05-10T19:21:49+09:00
Subject: eigenclass

Am Dienstag, den 10.05.2005, 00:04 +0900 schrieb ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org:

> Martin DeMello wrote:
> > I like the idea of using a single, invented word rather than a two
> word
> > phrase, since we avoid overloaded associations from other languages
> and
> > contexts. Thus far:
> >
> > uniclass
> > idioclass
> > eigenclass
> 
> It might be my maths-y background, but I'm a big fan of eigenclass. I'm
> not too sure about the meaning of the German ('own',
> 'characteristic'??), 
> 

Essentially the former. 

but for those who know a bit of abstract algebra -
> eigenvalues, eigenvectors etc - it conjures up some handy images. So I
> think it's a winner for a) mathematicians and b) German speakers. Who
> could that possibly leave out? ;-)
> 
> 
Well I'm both, at least partly, but I think "eigenclass" conveys some notions of a class which is not derived from anything else -- an autonomous, indigenous or primal class, so to say, something that is outside the entire hierarchy. I do not feel that this gets the emphasis right.

Matz's "singularity", however, is very appealing to me.

-- George
> 
> [On the other hand, if you don't fall into either of those two camps,
> it probably just makes you say 'eh? what the hell is that?'.]
> 

What the hell is what? :-)

-- Ruediger Marcus

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