Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!m.cs.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.EDU!johnson From: johnson@cs.uiuc.EDU (Ralph Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: "Wrappers" and "Container Objects" Keywords: wrappers, container objects Message-ID: <1991Jun26.165456.17545@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 16:54:56 GMT References: Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Reply-To: johnson@cs.uiuc.EDU (Ralph Johnson) Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 8 Nntp-Posting-Host: m.cs.uiuc.edu There seem to be two definitions of "container objects". One is what Smalltalk calls the collection classes, i.e. Sets, Arrays, Dictionaries, Lists, etc. The other is synonym for composite object. Since I'm a Smalltalk programmer, I think that Collection is just as good a word as Container, and I also think that "composite" is just as good as "container", so I would just as soon avoid the word. To the best of my knowledge, "wrapper" and "whopper" started out as MIT flavor words, so you might find a reference by talking to a Lisp person.