Re: [Monotone-devel] A better name for "context"

[John Ilves]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Ideally we should have a name that's short, and concrete, and rolls
> off the tongue -- one that is clear and unambiguous.  A little bit
> quirky is okay; if it's quirky then it will become a name, not just a
> description, and a name's what we want in order to make the concept
> concrete in people's heads.

I happened to come across an unusual word the other day that might be 
just right: "locus".


Encarta definition:

lo·cus (plural lo·ci)
noun

1. place: a place where something happens

2. mathematics, set of points: a set of points, the positions of which 
satisfy a set of algebraic conditions

3. genetics, gene position: the position of a gene in a chromosome

[Early 18th century. From Latin, “place” (source of English local and 
locate), of unknown origin.]


John