What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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[JohnH]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

Coordinate?

Index?

 

[Jon Harrop]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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Vector?

 

[Chris Uppal]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

Very good question.

I hit exactly the same problem earlier this year and found no completely
satisfactory answer. In the end I settled on "Rank" (in the sense of a
line, or row, of things).

-- chris

 

[iamfractal]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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Cow?


..ed

 

[Patricia Shanahan]

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Very good question.

I hit exactly the same problem earlier this year and found no completely
satisfactory answer. In the end I settled on "Rank" (in the sense of a
line, or row, of things).

-- chris

How about "Slice"? Although not all array slices are single rows or
columns, a row and a column are both examples of slices.

Patricia

 

[Raymond DeCampo]

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Very good question.

I hit exactly the same problem earlier this year and found no completely
satisfactory answer. In the end I settled on "Rank" (in the sense of a
line, or row, of things).

Why didn't you go with Line, since that doesn't require a further
explanation?

(Actually, I can think of some reasons myself.)

Ray

 

[Thomas Kellerer]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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I can't see any reason why the two of them should share a common base class
other then Object. What do they have in common?

A Row is a collection of Columns. That's the only relation I see there

Thomas

 

[Thomas Kellerer]

No, both are collections of cells.

OK, makes sense.

Thomas

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

A Row is a collection of Columns. That's the only relation I see there

No, both are collections of cells.

 

[Virgil Green]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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Axis

 

[Andrew McDonagh]

No, both are collections of cells.

or, a Column has a collection of Rows (that just happen to be a cell)

and a Row has a collection of Cells (1..n)

 

[steve]

What's an appropriate base class name for Row and Column?

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arrayAccess

 

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

or, a Column has a collection of Rows (that just happen to be a cell)

No, that makes Column and Row be equal to the full table.

 

[Joe]

No, that makes Column and Row be equal to the full table.

A single Column or Row can be equal to a full table.

 

[Owen Jacobson]

No, both are collections of cells.

Iterable<Cell> ?

 

[Wibble]

OK, makes sense.

Thomas

CollectionOfCells