Re: [FWP] another word for object?

[abigail@foad.org]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:16:13PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "DLN" == David L Nicol <david@kasey.umkc.edu> writes:
> 
>   DLN> Uri Guttman wrote:
>   >> 
>   >> here is a fun word problem. i have these processes which are full of
>   >> objects. each object is addressible by a name triplet. the first part is
>   >> the process and the second is the object and the third is private to the
>   >> object.
> 
>   DLN> Lisp calls the basic unit of its data structures "pairs." 
> 
>   DLN> Why not call these aforementioned objects "triples?"
> 
> because the actual object is not a triple. the address is a triplet.
> 
> my current best name for the process is hub. it has connections to other
> hubs (like the old tinkertoy).


In that case, the words 'node' and 'vertex' spring in mind. With the
connections named 'links' or 'edges'. (Or just 0-simplex and 1-simplex.)



Abigail

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