From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-16T20:49:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17914] Re: Rubygarden Poll

Hello --

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> Well, the results are in (with a record turnout), but they aren't
> decisive.
>
> The question was: "The best name for a small chunk of Ruby code is"
>
> And the results were:
>
>      facet      31.74%   (73)
>      snippet    29.13%   (67)
>      point       1.30%   (3)
>      rubette    20.87%   (48)
>      chip       10.43%   (24)
>      Walter      6.52%   (15)
>
>      Total votes: 230
>
> So, it's "facet" or "snippet". Only time will tell.

Congratulations to the 73 victors.  But I'm surprised that facet won.
Actually, I never saw how the word facet could be applied to a code
chunk/snippet/Walter.  A facet is an aspect of something; facets of
Ruby are things like single inheritance, elegance, iterators, or open
sourced-ness.  This, on the other hand:

   def greet
     puts "Hello"
   end

is not a facet of Ruby, in any sense of the word I can conjure up.

Here's a follow-up poll for the 73:  if you use the word "facet" to
mean a chunk of code, what word do you use to mean "facet"?  :-)


David

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