I know David has resigned to keeping 'Can', but wouldn't 'Jar' be an alternative? That way Empty and Full still make sense...
Initially I thought 'Tin' sounded better but I recognise that term wouldn't be as universal. Marc On 26/12/2008, at 4:14 AM, Michael Campbell wrote: > > David Pollak wrote: >> Folks, >> >> Over the year that Lift has had Can[T] as a replacement for Scala's >> Option[T], the name "Can" has required a lot of explaining. > > > I've never liked "Can" as a name; always thinking that the opposite > of one > should be a "Can't". I'm sure it's my own issue to solve, but it's > cognitively dissonant to me. > > Any other container name works better for me, although of the ones > you listed, > I like "Box". > > > -- > Twitter: http://twitter.com/campbellmichael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
