Re: Vocabulary matter: Component vs Element vs Item

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:25:19 +0200, Eryndlia Mavourneen  
<eryndlia@gmail.com> a écrit:

> In my own experience:
>
> 1) "Element" is one of a collection of the same or similar type of  
> thing, as in an array.  We have the chemical elements, too, which are  
> all chemically irreducible pieces of matter.
>
> 2) "Component" is a member of a construct of (possibly) differing types  
> of things.  I can have a component of a TV set, The Booch Components, or  
> a record.
>
> 3) "Item" is a selection -- could be from a menu or not.  In a loop, the  
> current constant is an item, regardless of whether it is an element, a  
> selection from a container, or eggs and bacon.
>
> -- Eryndlia (KK1T)

Your comment on Item related to loop, is clever and interesting.

About point #1, how do you relate it to #3? Do you feel as I do it's a  
matter of point of view? An item for the client adding something to a  
container, and is an element for the container, thus the Element_Type  
instead of Item_Type? I was interested in the question in a more general  
way than containers (the same question rise in other patterns too), this  
is just that the case of containers speaks easily and the Ada standard  
containers use this naming convention.

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