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: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) Subject: Re: Real OO Date: 1996/05/02 Message-ID: <4m928h$m8r@news3.digex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152502390 references: <4m8b7f$9k2@krusty.irvine.com> followup-to: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object organization: The Universe newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1996-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan (adam@irvine.com) wrote: : bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes: : : >Well, words change their meaning, and get additional meanings. After : >all, think about an Italian chef admonishing us that "spaghetti" is : >really a kind of pasta, and the term shouldn't be evilly hijacked to : >talk about gotos. I've seen the term "spaghetti" used quite a few times : >to describe messy multiple inheritance patterns. : I'd just tell the chef that "hijacking" is a violent act of using a : death threat to force an airplane or other transportation vehicle to : be taken to a different destination; and the term shouldn't be evilly : misappropriated to talk about metaphors. Right. I prefer the SADP use of "spaghetti" as unconstrained variation of the flow of control (or control flow :-). Elliott