From: Euan Mee <lucid@...>
Date: 2001-07-16T23:13:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17924] Re: Rubygarden Poll

On 16/7/01, David Alan Black wrote (more or less):
> On 16/7/1, Dave Thomas wrote (more or less):
> > the results are in...
> > "The best name for a small chunk of Ruby code is?"
> >      facet      31.74%   (73)
> >      snippet    29.13%   (67)
> >      point       1.30%   (3)
> >      rubette    20.87%   (48)
> >      chip       10.43%   (24)
> >      Walter      6.52%   (15)
> >
> > So, it's "facet" or "snippet". Only time will tell.
> 
> A facet is an aspect of something; facets of Ruby are things
> like single inheritance, elegance, iterators, or open
> sourced-ness.  This:
>    def greet
>      puts "Hello"
>    end
> is not a facet of Ruby, in any sense of the word I can conjure
> up.

I've only just joined the list, so didn't vote in the poll.  But as 
an amateur philologist, I agree with David  (Alan Black, that is)

Facet is a counterproductive name for a snippet of Ruby-code.

Can I add my  vote post-facto?  :-)

The obvious (to me) name for a snippet of Ruby-code would be 
a 'gem' of Ruby-code.  But then, how many snippets will 
actually turn out to be gems?  :-)  So snippet it is, I reckon

.

Cheers,
     Euan
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