Comments on: dear lazyweb: please name DValue

By: Adhemar

Adhemar — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:29:02 +0000

genue or genvue, short for “Gnome GENeric ValUE datatype”.

genue has, as a benefit, a geek connotation. According to Wookieepedia, Genue was a BFF-1 bulk freighter used by the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War.

By: pvanhoof

pvanhoof — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:11:37 +0000

GAsset (asset: a valuable item that is owned)

By: Simon Holm Thøgersen

Simon Holm Thøgersen — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:54:22 +0000

GIValue for immutable value.

By: A. Walton

A. Walton — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:53:31 +0000

I’m voting for GConst, or at the extreme, GConstValue, as it even more clearly illustrates what it is.

GAtom wouldn’t be bad except we already have GQuark and well, I think the physics guys would start throwing things at us.

By: Rob J. Caskey

Rob J. Caskey — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:50:23 +0000

Thizzby

By: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:53:18 +0000

Thinking “serializable piece of data” makes me say:

GDatum

It connects good with a “data read from a stream” metaphor which is obviously immutable.

By: menesis

menesis — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:08:25 +0000

Immutable value of any type? Such thing is named a constant, so GConst. Maybe GAtom if some other language calls it so?..

By: Mathias Hasselmann

Mathias Hasselmann — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:03:29 +0000

This might sound stupid, but why cann’t you just use/extend GValue? From the docs you linked there seems to be quite some overlap between GValue and DValue.

By: Wouter Bolsterlee

Wouter Bolsterlee — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:42:33 +0000

GConst, as already suggested, makes up a really good name, methinks.

By: Christian Kellner

Christian Kellner — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:21:03 +0000

Ah I forogt one: GTBag (spoken: G-Tee-Bag)