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What to call Basic Specifiers, and where to designate them

Proposal

What term should be used to describe what James McKim has called the "basic specifiers" of a class?

Select all of the following options that you are happy with.

Please select one or more of the following:

Basic specifiers
Basic queries
Primitive queries
Axiomatic queries
Spanning queries
(some other term)

Result

The Basic specifiers will be called "Basic specifiers".

Voting details

votes cast at eGroups:

Basic queries
                jc-@rh.edu
Primitive queries
                richie-@netlabs.net
                sparke-@eiffel.ie
                wagne-@ti.uni-trier.de
                franck.arnau-@omgroup.com
                jc-@rh.edu
                kwaxe-@aha.ru
Basic specifiers
                genep-@sympatico.ca
                eric-@gobosoft.com
                sparke-@eiffel.ie
                franck.arnau-@omgroup.com
                steinma-@sco.edu
                jc-@rh.edu
                jweiric-@one.net
                kwaxe-@aha.ru
(some other term)
                eric-@gobosoft.com
Axiomatic queries
                jc-@rh.edu
Spanning queries
                jc-@rh.edu

votes sent to the discussion list:

Simon Parker:
                Any combination of {primitive, basic} {queries, features, specifiers}
Eric Bezault:
                Basic features
Joachim Durchholz:
                Basic features

Proposal

The basic specifiers of class ARRAY are 'item', 'lower' and 'upper'. Where should these features be
designated as basic specifiers?

Select all of the following options that you are happy with.

Please select one or more of the following:

with each feature
in the class indexing clause
in a feature group
in documentation outside the class text
nowhere

Result

The Basic Specifiers will be designated in a feature group.

Voting

votes cast at eGroups:

nowhere
                eric-@gobosoft.com
with each feature
                wagne-@ti.uni-trier.de
                steinma-@sco.edu
in the class indexing clause
                genep-@sympatico.ca
                eric-@gobosoft.com
                wagne-@ti.uni-trier.de
                sparke-@eiffel.ie
                franck.arnau-@omgroup.com
                jc-@rh.edu
                kwaxe-@aha.ru
in a feature group
                genep-@sympatico.ca
                sparke-@eiffel.ie
                richie-@netlabs.net
                franck.arnau-@omgroup.com
                jc-@rh.edu
                jweiric-@one.net

votes sent by email:

in multiple feature groups
Joachim Durchholz
in a feature group
Ulrich Windl

"tiebreaker" deciding vote by project secretary:

in a feature group
Roger Browne