[Dbix-class] DBIx::Class::Tree::Fast

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Ram Dobson <ram.dobson at nih.gov> wrote:

> ascendant DOES also mean ancestor. but that's a much less used meaning in
> english... rising is what people think ascendant means.
>
> i wasn't aware of the second definition until i looked at the dictionary
> myself...
>
> so ascendant is probably not the clearest choice. people use ancestor a
> million times more for this purpose.


Well... I didn't think I will launch such a debate on this point of the new
module :-)

I guess we can to use both then. ancestor to be compatible and ascendant
because it's Perl, fun  and i like
the idea of English speakers finding out new definition...


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> On 8/4/2010 12:43 PM, Len Jaffe wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Rob Kinyon <rob.kinyon at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rob.kinyon at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>    Except "ascendant" means "rising". "ancestor" and "descendant" are the
>>    proper terms for tree-walking. "ascendant" is not the right term.
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>> Antecedant anybody?
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