-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Whiteholes and blackholes
Date: 	Sun, 23 May 2010 23:28:41 -0800
From: 	Sean M. Burke <sburke at cpan.org>
To: 	Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox.com>
CC: 	Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
References: 	<4BF9B6FB.8070107 at digitalmars.com> <4BF9CF48.50205 at pobox.com>



On 05/23/2010 04:58 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On 2010.5.23 4:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I've been looking for the origin of the terms as it applies to classes, as in:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Class-BlackHole-0.04/lib/Class/BlackHole.pm

I think I just came up with the name out of the blue.

Common-ish expression... "I tried emailing it to you but I guess it disappeared into a black hole" maybe?

I'm almost totally sure that I knew of no pattern by that time, since, I was, and am, pretty hazy on patterns or their nomenclature.


Also... I think it was Mark-Jason Dominus who said something like: patterns are mostly just you manually making up for what your language should be smart enough to do in a line or two, or not be so deficient as to need them at all.  (But fact-check that-- he might have said the exact reverse, or said it about something else, I dunno.)

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