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Re: DAVENPORT: Announce: Extended DocBook Synopses v1.0
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- Subject: Re: DAVENPORT: Announce: Extended DocBook Synopses v1.0
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:51:38 -0400
- References: <199908301512.IAA19562@bolt.sonic.net>
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/ Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net> was heard to say:
| | Oh, barf! I hadn't noticed that name collision. Drat and blast!
| | I don't know what to do about that. I know what I'd like to do,
| | subvert Interface and steal it for this new purpose. Given that
| | it's losing it's class attribute in 4.0 and getting a
| | drastically simplified content model, we might just pull that
| | off.
|
| Um, please no. Perhaps we should in the fullness of time change
| the present interface to gui or something. But if the present
| interface is for /Graphical User/ Interface, what is the qualifier
| for interface in the context now under discussion? /OO/ Interface?
Right. I know we can't do it, but it's still what I'd like...
Yes, object-oriented programming is the context under
discussion. Alas, <oointerface> just seems really ugly and it's
bound to cause confusion. Theoretically, I know what I'm doing
and the other use of interface just never occurred to me.
Cheers,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Everything should be made as
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | simple as possible, but no simpler.
Member, DocBook Editorial Board |