Re: [FWP] another word for object?

[martin langhoff <martin@scim.net>]

"B. K. Oxley (binkley) at Home" wrote:
> Ding is always nice.  (German for 'thing'.)  It also has nice
> connotations from the phrase "das Ding-am-ding" ('thing in itself') from
> philosophy[*].  Plus you can always make nice puns in English with it
> (e.g., "ding-a-ling", "ding/dong" v. "this/that").

	I realy *like* that notation. 
	
	and, if you're so inclined, you could use spanish. "La cosa en si"
('the thing in itself') give you 'cosa' and 'si' (something like the
English self, of the German Selbst). And let's not get into K. Marx
books, or well have a whole new OO theory of classes and sublasses.

	Anyway, I rather not name variables or methods in my own language. It
gets messy to read/debug code written in English-like Perl with latin
variables. Besides, you really don't want to know how things like
'stack' look (and sound) in spanish.

maritn

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