Extension vs defender methods

[Ben Evans]

Just because a term has gained wide usage doesn't make it necessarily good.
E.g. open class, social graph, weakly typed, etc, etc.

Thanks,

Ben
On Nov 10, 2011 10:42 AM, "Llewellyn Falco" <isidore at setgame.com> wrote:

> In Neal's defense, this isn't him defining "extension method", this is the
> current definition of "extension method"  in the programming world at large.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> > As Neal said, English is malleable.  If he wants to define "extension
> method" method to mean extended by a non-author, that's within the bounds
> of credibility.  We prefer to think of it as "extended after the fact".
>  (Another way to think of it is that the "extension" refers to the notion
> of interface; an interface with behavior is an "extended interface".)
> >
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