[Dev] New name for the TrunkParentBlock mechanism

[Philippe Bossut]

+1 on Donn's proposal: much easier to understand with a drawing indeed 
(thanks Katie!).

For the math, I'll just stick with the "ensemble (ou point) de 
discontinuites d'une fonction complexe" so to  avoid confusions... :)

Cheers,
- Philippe

Jeffrey Harris wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>
>+1 to branch point.
>
>Branch point has the minor disadvantage that every time we see this, us
>math major's will think of complex analysis branch points and branch
>cuts (for those of you who are both non-math people and masochists:
><http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BranchCut.html> and
><http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BranchPoint.html> ).
>
>I'm sure I can get over that. :)
>
>Sincerely,
>Jeffrey
>
>
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>>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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