From: Bill Guindon Date: 2006-06-09T07:48:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods? On 6/8/06, Elliot Temple wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Alex Young wrote: > > > Alder Green wrote: > >> On 6/8/06, Austin Ziegler wrote: > >>> ... > >>> No, I don't have a better name. I thought of #blend, but that's just > >>> too ... ugly. > >> I like #blend. Goes well with #blend? etc. > >> Some other nice alternatives from the thesaurus: meld, merge, mingle, > >> fuse, combine, integrate, compound. > > A few others: > > > > derive (a little obscure) > > evolve (I quite like that) > > evolve seems vague and makes people think of monkeys What's wrong with that? ;) Ok, now I have to toss some out... engulf (seems bigger than include or extend) completes (give me the complete list of methods) clobber (silly, but it's likely to do that to some methods, and has CLass/OBject mnemonic). > -- Elliot Temple > http://www.curi.us/blog/ > -- Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla) The best answer to most questions is "it depends".