Some naming questions

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-29 03:29:38

Hello,
current V2 code has two kinds of targets. "abstract targets" such as 
main-target, does not correspond to specific file, and can be generated with 
different properties. "virtual-targets" correspond to specific file. The 
naming does not represent the difference in a clear way -- "abstract" does 
not tell that many variants can be produced, and "virtual" tells about some 
impelementation detail.

The same situation is in the docs -- which I'm tweaking at the moment. 
Sometimes "target" refers to "main target", and sometimes to real file 
target. What if we decide that targets which can produce different files when 
generated with different properties are called "metatargets" and file targets 
are called just "targets"? For now, this will affect only docs, but I hope 
code will be changed, too?

Second question. When writing docs, I find that the word "rule" does not make 
much sense for a newcomer. I'd like to user more obvious "function" instead.
Is this idea reasonable? I might cause a confusion by the time user finds that 
syntax for declaring "function" starts with "rule" keyword, but at that time 
he won't be a newbiew any more.

- Volodya