From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T09:23:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17952] Re: Rubygarden Poll

I agree "facet" already carries a load of meaning contrary to an arbitrary 
"small chunk of code".  Perhaps, what they were striving for is "shard".

On Monday 16 July 2001 06:49, you wrote:
> 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