From: Robert Oliver <rwoliver2@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T13:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

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I agree with you and wondered the reasoning for the "kill" command myself.

Is it just me, or as ActiveRecord's .destroy method seemed a bit too much?
Isn't .delete enough? :)

Robert

On 7/10/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
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>
> Well, I for one don't like the name "kill" for a command/system call
> that merely sends a *signal* to a process. "kill" is simply one of the
> possible signals it can send. I would have called it "signal". It has
> nothing to do with the offensiveness or lack thereof of the name -- it's
> simply an overspecialized name for a more general function.
>
>


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