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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: 2020 C++
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:44:15 -0700
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Fran <flitterio@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:31:00 -0700, Tim Rentsch
> <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>
>> A name I am starting to warm up to is "property".  It fits with
>> lots of the examples on the cppreference page:  the "Hashable"
>> property, the "Incrementable" property, the "Addable" property,
>> etc.
>
> Those words sound like "capabilities" to me, which seems appropriate
> to the suffix "...able" on those names.

Despite how the words might sound, "capability" is not a good fit for
a C++ concept, which supplies nothing in the way of implementation.