Issue - 269 - renaming <extensibleAssign>

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Issue - 269 - renaming <extensibleAssign>

Status: received
Date added: 21 Apr 2006
Date submitted: 21 April 2006
Submitter: Alex Yiu
Description: The <extensibleAssign> syntax seems to be a misnomer, mainly because the phrase ends with "assign", which tend to make readers think that construct is parallel to the <assign> activity. In reality, it is an operation within <assign>. I think that may confuse readers. (On the other hand, <extensionActivity> is a suitable name, because it is indeed parallel to an activity.) 
Submitter's proposal:

After doing some informal polling among some TC members, it seems to me that a number of people prefer changing <extensibleAssign> into:

        <extAssignOperation>

[We would have with <extensionAssignOperation> as the second choice. Most of people that got polled seem to find <extensionAssignOperation> is the most accurate term. But, few people prefer a shorter term. Hence we got <extAssignOperation> as the choice out of this informal polling.]

A simple global search-and-replace task would be delegated to the editor team, which will change related text.
Changes: 21 Apr 2006 - new issue

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