I think in this case although all this bantering is quite fun, I prefer
bean because it is a fairly standard term that people will pick up on even
if they don't know Java. Oysters and other such things will just be confusing.
Later,
Gunther
At 06:54 PM 11/16/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>* Randall Marbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Now that we have a name for p5ee, are we going to call
> > the components "beans" or "pearls" or ????
>
>I've always thought they would be called Oysters and I think I've seen
>Paul Kulchenko use that term as well.
>
>Why Oyster? Because an Oyster sometimes has a Pearl inside. And the
>equivalent of a bean will be something used to hold Perl objects
>(which may or may not have significant code attached).
>
>On this note, I started some experimental work on a container type
>system for Oysters recently and I called it a Pot, as in Oyster Pot.
>
>Greg
>
>--
>Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/
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