duck!

[Leandro Lucarella]

Kagamin, el 15 de octubre a las 17:16 me escribiste:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> 
> > I was talking to Walter about Kenji's adaptTo. We both think it's a very 
> > powerful enabler, but adaptTo is a bland name. After discussing a few 
> > marketing strategies, I proposed "duck". It's short, simple, and evokes 
> > "duck typing".
> 
> 1. adaptTo helped me to understand what it does, while duck!Drawable doesn't.

I agree, just "adapt" might be an option, it even has a precedence of
something similar in Python (even when the PEP[1] was rejected, PEAK has
an implementation[2]). But "duck" is really cryptic (as symbol names
invented by Andrei usually are :).

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0246/
[2] http://peak.telecommunity.com/protocol_ref/module-protocols.html

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