[Zope3-dev] RFC: Unification of requests and security contexts through Use

[Jim Fulton]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:09:58PM +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>>I don't like the word 'use', as it leads to sentences involving "the use
>>of the use", which are highly difficult to comprehend. This is not a
>>theoretical complaint; Jim already used two such lines in a row in this thread 
>>already.
> 
> 
> Can we use a name that is not such a common homonym in
> english?
> 
> thesaurus.com turns up these for use (n):
> 
> account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, bag, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, employment, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, hang-up, help, helpfulness, kick, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, shot, thing, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wont, worth
> 
> hmm, most of those are no good or not available.
> bag?
> shot?
> usage?
> 

You need a UML thesaurus. ;)

If we don't use "use", I favor "activity" or "interaction", both of
which are used in UML to model use cases.

Jim

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