On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
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.
How about "donor"?
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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