From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: "Moving" objects of limited type
Date: 2000/06/05
Date: 2000-06-05T13:47:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <393BAE0F.ED8E27F5@quadruscorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wvk6xz5p.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Now my question: What's an appropriate name for such an operation?
> "Move", "Relocate", "Rename", "Teleport"? Maybe this operation is
> quite common, and in this case I want to use the correct term.
I think you want to avoid "Move" since Ada.Strings... uses "Move" to
mean "Copy". "Relocate" or "Transfer" sound like they describe the
behavior and don't come with baggage that may cause misinterpretation.
MDC
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2000-06-03 0:00 "Moving" objects of limited type Florian Weimer
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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