• From: Tyler Baker <tyler@i...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@q...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 09:12:12 -0400

Don Park wrote:

> Tyler Baker wrote:
> >Why were Attribute's changed to Attr's.  In a lot of ways this is sort of
> trivial
> >but verbosity in API's is almost always better than some shorthand
> abbreviation.
> >You can read words but not abbreviations.  Can someone please clarify the
> >motivation behind this change?  I know this sort of issue is trivial but it
> would
> >be nice to know nonetheless why this change was made.
>
> Attribute was renamed to Attr to avoid conflict with IDL's use of the word
> Attribute.

Geese it has been a while since I messed with CORBA.  I should of caught that
myself.

Tyler


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