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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flavor</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flatten.html" title="flatten"/><link rel="next" href="flavorful.html" title="flavorful"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flavor</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flatten.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="flavorful.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flavor"/><dt xmlns="" id="flavor"><b>flavor</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. “<span class="quote">DDT commands come in two
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flavors.</span>” “<span class="quote">These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and
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small green ones.</span>” “<span class="quote">Linux is a flavor of Unix</span>” See
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<a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The attribute that causes something to be
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<a href="flavorful.html"><i class="glossterm">flavorful</i></a>. Usually used in the phrase “<span class="quote">yields
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additional flavor</span>”. “<span class="quote">This convention yields additional flavor
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by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down.</span>”
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See <a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. This usage was certainly reinforced by
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the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the
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constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange,
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charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) — however,
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hackish use of <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> at MIT predated
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QCD.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The term for <span class="firstterm">class</span> (in the
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object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the
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Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS
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facility), the term <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> is still
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used as a general synonym for <span class="firstterm">class</span>
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by some LISP hackers.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flatten.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="flavorful.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flatten<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>flavorful</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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