[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1531

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Great idea, thanks.

Andrei

On 05/23/2010 06:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I emailed the two authors asking them if they coined the terms or not.
> If they did, we should credit them.
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I borrowed the terms from here:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Class-BlackHole-0.04/lib/Class/BlackHole.pm
>>
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Class-WhiteHole-0.04/lib/Class/WhiteHole.pm
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>> On 05/22/2010 10:03 PM, Shin Fujishiro wrote:
>>> Walter Bright<walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shin Fujishiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure! I just couldn't use the terms because I wanted to allow users to
>>>>> inject arbitrary implementation. I'll add BlackHole and WhiteHole
>>>>> soon.
>>>>> Ah, I wonder why I couldn't think of alias!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I googled whitehole and blackhole and couldn't find any association
>>>> with
>>>> programming. Is the terminology correct? Are we inventing terms?
>>>
>>> Probably we are inventing terms.
>>>
>>> I read a slideshow uploaded by Andrei which introduced "black holes"
>>> and "white holes" as models of auto-implemented classes. I borrowed the
>>> idea from there, so I'm following the original terminology.
>>>
>>> Indeed, the terms are a bit too astronomy. And there should be more
>>> descriptions in the doc if these terms are used. But I'm not sure how to
>>> describe this... The mentioned slodeshow file seems already deleted,
>>> and I have no local copy.
>>>
>>> Shin
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