From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-10-18T13:46:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Help figuring out appropriate naming scheme (previously 'wedge')

On Oct 16, 2:40 pm, Dave Aronson <rubytalk2d...@davearonson.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:01, Intransition <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > One idea is to use Load as toplevel namespace:
>
> This strikes me as somewhat odd.  As far as I've noticed, TLNs tend to
> be nouns, or maybe adjectives if they're intended to be used as
> mixins.  That would point more towards Loader or Wedge or Loadable.
> Maybe Wedgie?  ;-)
>
> > But maybe 'freeloader' can work?
>
> Yeah, the Ruby community does seem to appreciate a good pun.  (I often
> refer to having missed the Java boat, and trying to sneak onto the
> Ruby yacht.)  This one has the added advantage of being actually
> somewhat descriptive, as it does have something to do with loading.
>
> If you want to distinguish your gem from others having to do with
> loading, I'd stay away from names as generic as Load or Loader.  If
> you can describe your "wedge" as some kind of particular technique,
> you could just call it Wedge... or if you still want a touch of
> whimsy, go for Wedgie.  That opens the (trap)door to all kinds of
> horrible puns.... ;-)
>
> One of these years, I intend to take some of the fairly complex
> presentation logic I did in making a Game of Life in an arbitrary
> number of dimensions, and package it up in a gem that could be used
> for all kinds of N-dimensional calculation and presentation.  Since it
> has to do with dimensions, I've been considering names like Dimwit,
> Dimsum, Dimmerswitch, and so on.  (If anybody wants to see the Life
> game, it's athttps://github.com/davearonson/N-Dimensional-Life/.)

Very humorous, thanks for the chuckle.

I feel a bit like a "dimwit" trying to conceive of N-dimensional
life :-) Then again I did once managed to conceive of an infinite-
dimension pyramid based on an analysis of Colatz' conjecture. But that
required a lot of illicit college activities, if you know what I mean.

I ended up going with "Loadable". I realized I could use a mixin
instead of a base class to better effect and, strangely but
effectively, the TLN could also be the mixin.