21 May
2008
21 May
'08
5:54 p.m.
Would the term "pruned_leaf" be an acceptable compromise? The "pruned_" prefix would imply the "context" you mentioned above as well as "subset of them" [where them is nodes] mengioned above. In the case that the node was an actual leaf (e.g. an actual file) then the "size of the pruning" would be just 0, where "size of pruning" is the distance to an actual leaf (where actual leaf means the same as leaf node in this quote:
How about deprecating branch_path and using 'head', and deprecating 'leaf' in favor of 'tail'? This replaces tree terms with list terms, since a path is a list. --John