RE: [FWP] another word for object?

[neil moore <neil.moore@harness-software.com>]

Uri,

Try Entity, you can then inheret from it and call them
things like SurfaceEntity, LineEntity, DrawingEntity, 
LightingEntity, CameraEntity, etc.

That way your not overusing the word Object..

Neil

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > your mission is to come up with a nice short term to use instead of
> > object. i am sick of the word and i need to name these 
> things and have
> > %name_to_object maps and such. i can't just call it 'name' either.
> 
> While you're at it, does anyone have good suggestions for a renderer
> implemented in a OO language, so that every Object is an object but
> obviously there are a lot of objects that are not Objects..
> 
> Element, item and thing could work, but each has the same issue of
> excessive generality that led to the problem in the first place.

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