On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-08-18 17:30 GMT-03:00 Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl>: >> On 18/08/16 14:38, stepharo wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> In my projects I start to do the following: >>> >>> I create <examplar> class method that returns an prototypical instance. >> >> >> Nice. Excellent inititive. I'm not a native speaker, and <exemplar> does not >> sound like the right name for this to me. That might be me being dutch. >> Native speakers, is this the right name to use? > > Semantically it is correct, but for me, also maybe by not being a > native English speaker, sounds weird. > > I'd use something like "sample". However I'll be fine with whatever > you choose. But I'd choose something that doesn't sound weird to > native English readers, we already have some cases of that. > > Regards, > > > Esteban A. Maringolo >
In the previous thread I argued against <exemplar> and for <sample>, but I'm not so strong in my conviction to push it again :). The former is a little exotic, but is sufficient -- and perhaps its useful <example> and <exemplar> sound similar with just a minor difference at the end. P.S. In terms of discover-ability about this difference, a passing thought is it would be nice for newcomers to be able to hover over a code like a pragma and get a tool tip popup. cheers -ben