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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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. &#8220;<span class="quote">DDT commands come in two
flavors.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and
small green ones.</span>&#8221; &#8220;<span class="quote">Linux is a flavor of Unix</span>&#8221; See
<a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. The attribute that causes something to be
<a href="flavorful.html"><i class="glossterm">flavorful</i></a>. Usually used in the phrase &#8220;<span class="quote">yields
additional flavor</span>&#8221;. &#8220;<span class="quote">This convention yields additional flavor
by allowing one to print text either right-side-up or upside-down.</span>&#8221;
See <a href="../V/vanilla.html"><i class="glossterm">vanilla</i></a>. This usage was certainly reinforced by
the terminology of quantum chromodynamics, in which quarks (the
constituents of, e.g., protons) come in six flavors (up, down, strange,
charm, top, bottom) and three colors (red, blue, green) &#8212; however,
hackish use of <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> at MIT predated
QCD.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The term for <span class="firstterm">class</span> (in the
object-oriented sense) in the LISP Machine Flavors system. Though the
Flavors design has been superseded (notably by the Common LISP CLOS
facility), the term <span class="firstterm">flavor</span> is still
used as a general synonym for <span class="firstterm">class</span>
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> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flavorful.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flatten </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> flavorful</td></tr></table></div></body></html>