>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.