Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers and destructors

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Sat, 02 Sep 2000 10:30:07 -0600

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>The whole notion of blessing is non-obvious enough already.  

It's the benedictory (con)not(at)ion of blessing, not the bless()ing
itself that so confuses people, I think.  

It bless() were instead named something like 

    mark
    stamp
    label
    brand
    retype
    denote
    notate
    entype
    mktype
    nominate
    emblazon
    classify
    annotate
    designate
    authorize
    methodize

This might not be so confusing.  Most of those, however, are
longer to type than bless.

--tom