Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 17:32, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Personally I've not seen a problem with the term "parent" in >> this scenario. The class inheritance metaphor maps reasonably >> clearly to a parent/child metaphor. > > It's not bad in itself; it's just that it means almost all > of our objects are in three different kinds of parent-child > relationship simultaneously, which is confusing if you're > not used to it...
It's confusing even when you're used to it.
