"... hook, lock and flanker belong to an elaborate rubgy analogy."
... with subtle play on the fishing idiom "Hook, line and sinker". Nice.
On 12/11/05, Peter Danenberg pcd@wikitex.org wrote:
Or, as I'm beginning to suspect the more I think about it, a mixture of the three [...].
Excellent semantic reconstruction, Rowan: in good sad-
ness is an Elizabethan phrase meaning "but seriously;"* while hook, lock and flanker belong to an elaborate rubgy analogy.
In order to avoid the proliferation of hooks, Apache
introduced a notion of filter in 2.0: each filter is passed a "bucket brigade" or stream of data which it may process before passing it to the next filter.
Autonomous, chained filters are said to be more effi-
cient than centrally managed mods.
- See Taming of the Shrew, V.ii: "Now, in good
sadness, son Petruchio, I think thou hast the ver- iest shrew of all." _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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