[Dev] New name for the TrunkParentBlock mechanism

Donn Denman donn at osafoundation.org
Wed Oct 5 14:04:06 PDT 2005


Combining other's suggestions, I think the term "branch point" captures 
the idea best.  So I vote for BranchPointBlock and BranchBlock, as 
illustrated by hacking Katie's ascii art:

On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> Pardon the terrible ascii art here, but it helps me to have a picture:
Ascii art is easy to hack!
>
>       *
>       |
>    ----------
>    |        |
>    *        * <-- BranchPointBlock
>   ----
>   |  |
>   *  *
>
>             * <-- BranchBlock
>             |
>           ----
>           |  |
>           *  *
>



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