Re: terminology roundup

OK, I tried to update the spreadsheet with example sentences, and also 
added verbs (your initial spreadsheet only had nouns).

Also, you seemed to be missing "initializer" from your list (3rd arg to 
dojo.declare/defineWidget), so I added it.

Owen Williams wrote:
> So there have been a lot of "discussions" lately about what do we call 
> the different things in dojo.  For example, some people like the word 
> "Class", some think that "Class" is too closely tied to immutability to 
> be used in a dynamic language like JavaScript.
>
> I created a page summarizing my recommendations for a consistent set of 
> terms that we can use.  Please have a look before the meeting tomorrow.  
>
> Although this may not seem like a big deal, I think nailing this will 
> both end a lot of pointless bickering and help improve our "narrative 
> voice" in the docs by having us all talk about the same things in the 
> same way.
>
> http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/DojoTerminologyRoundup
>
> If you have different recommendations from mine (in yellow), please add 
> a new column and put them there, *don't mess with my suggestions or 
> anyone else's*.  To make it quicker to parse, please just show the 
> differences from my suggestions so we can more easily see where we all 
> agree.
>
> *Also, it appears that only one person can edit the page at a time, and 
> if you are looking at the page, you are locking everyone else out from 
> making changes.  Please don't leave the page open in your browser.  *[if 
> any Jot experts can tell us a better way to do this I'd love to hear it].
>
> [Apologies to Bill who created a similar page the other day which I 
> forgot about when I created this one.  His page is at:  
> http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/WeeklyIrcMeetings/Irc061018/Agenda061018/TheDojoWay/Language%20Terms ].
>
> thanks all
> Owen
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