Consumers and Suppliers

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Fri Apr 5 10:36:42 PDT 2013


> About the choice of name of "Consumer", I seriously hate it. It has a
> connotation that the ownership of the object is transferred, and object
> might be dissolved. In many of my use cases, "consumer" simply sounds
> grotesque and totally misleading. I wish the choice was Procedure instead.
> (I'm just venting, not asking for change.)

Yes, finding names was very hard.  Suffice it to say that there was no 
name considered that *someone* didn't hate.


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