From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,17251c4a1886ffce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: "Moving" objects of limited type Date: 2000/06/05 Message-ID: <393BAE0F.ED8E27F5@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 631282385 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <87wvk6xz5p.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 5 Jun 2000 13:47:30 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-06-05T13:47:30+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Some people think programming Windows is like nailing jello to the ceiling... easy with the right kind of nails." -- Ivor Horton - Beginning Visual C++ 6 ======================================================================