On 10/16/10 1:35 CDT, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Kagamin, el 15 de octubre a las 17:16 me escribiste:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
I was talking to Walter about Kenji's adaptTo. We both think it's a very
powerful enabler, but adaptTo is a bland name. After discussing a few
marketing strategies, I proposed "duck". It's short, simple, and evokes
"duck typing".
1. adaptTo helped me to understand what it does, while duck!Drawable doesn't.
I agree, just "adapt" might be an option, it even has a precedence of
something similar in Python (even when the PEP[1] was rejected, PEAK has
an implementation[2]). But "duck" is really cryptic (as symbol names
invented by Andrei usually are :).
Walter recognized it instantly, as I think most should. Isn't "duck
typing" really spread out there?
Andrei
