From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T00:30:56+09:00
Subject: Re: "The class that it is mixed in to..."

Excerpts from Randy Kramer's mail of 23 Sep 2005 (CDT):
> My first thought is that I would call the thing getting mixed in the
> mixer and the other (the thing getting something mixed into it) the
> mixee.

My thought pattern exactly. Unfortunately "mixin" is the official name
of the "mixer", so "mixee" does sound a bit odd. Oh well, it's
English---we don't value linguistic consistency in the first place.

Other options are target, recipient, subject... victim?

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William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>