Allin said:
What I had in mind was more like "come inside, I'll show you
a few things
that I normally don't share with others; be my guest and help yourself".
OMG, now that I see it written I realise this can be a little
sinister.
Take it out of context, imagine a cartoon strip or a movie scene with an
Adult and a Child :)
Well, I was thinking like the property in C++, "friend", but people may
still think is bidirectional relation.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:34 AM Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Am 17.01.2019 um 16:52 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Am 17.01.2019 um 08:57 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>>> A question (no time to check myself, sorry). If A has B as a sibling
>>> and B has C, is C a sibling to A?
>
> I haven't had time to make the change yet, but it now seems to me that
> "sibling" is the wrong word, since siblinghood is inherently mutual
> (also transitive) and I don't have that in mind here. I'm now thinking
> of "host" (or perhaps "server"). If package A specifies B as
"host"
> (let's say) that gives A access to B's private functions, but not vice
> versa.
What about "parent" or the reverse of heir (donor? bequeather?)?
> I haven't even thought about multiple layers of hosting, but as things
> stand the answer to the question above is No.
Yes, no need, methinks.
-s
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