New subject: Magritte Validation Error

29 Nov 2005

...
  Honestly, maybe
it's a culture difference, but damned if I   don't have a 
 description accessor on tons of my domain objects,
summary   doesn't feel 
 right to me.  I was just thinking something
that's less common than 
description, that's just so generic a term and so common for an 
accessor.  Even something similar that is more behavioral   sounding like 
 descriptor, or, really, a conversion method like
asDescrition or 
asDescriptor rather than just description.  It's not really   an accessor 
 anyhow, it's building a description of the
object and   returning it as a 
 container, so a conversion method seems
reasonable.  Thoughts?

  How about #descriptions which is a common naming for 
 collections of anything ? 
I would even prefer that, since I don't see myself as having collisions
with it, but I really do feel it should be a conversion method.  When
you want a component, you say anObject asComponent, when you want a
description, why not anObject asDescription?  The description isn't a
property of the object, it's a different representation of it, a meta
representation.

RE: Magritte Validation Error