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Understanding xref's "source" and "sink" terms

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sodapopcan

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Understanding xref's "source" and "sink" terms

It drives me nuts when I don’t fully understand terminology. I’ve been using mix xref graph --sink some/file/that/causes_lots_of_recompilations.ex for a few years at this point and while I know what I get from it, I’ve never being able to explain out loud what --sink does. I know it’s the opposite of source and I believe they are electrical engineering terms—is this correct? And a “sink” is literally like a kitchen or bathroom sink, so everything in the sink shares a common source? Am I on the right track here?

Thanks!

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LostKobrakai

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The terminology comes from talking about graphs:

In a Directed acyclic graph, a source node is a node (also known as a vertex) with no incoming connections from other nodes, while a sink node is a node without outgoing connections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(computing)

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