From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-07-16T21:08:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17916] Re: Rubygarden Poll

facets also are found in topicmaps:
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0129.pdf
3.9 facet
a) The subset of information objects that share an externally-applied
property.
b) The values given to a particular property externally applied to a set
of information objects.
and
http://www.diffuse.org/TopicMaps/schema.html#Facet

I think "snippet" would be appropriate for a small chunk of Ruby code.

Tobi

> > 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
> >
> 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. 
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Tobias Reif
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