diff --git a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/code/queries_code.dart b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/code/queries_code.dart
index 86b943c8fe..3114a67855 100644
--- a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/code/queries_code.dart
+++ b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/code/queries_code.dart
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ library angular2.transform.common.code.queries_code;
 import 'package:analyzer/analyzer.dart';
 import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/ast.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/annotation_matcher.dart';
-import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/dumb_eval.dart';
+import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/naive_eval.dart';
 import 'package:barback/barback.dart';
 
 /// Visitor responsbile for processing a [ClassDeclaration] and extracting any
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class _QueriesAnnotationVisitor extends SimpleAstVisitor<Iterable<String>> {
       }
       final queries = node.expression as MapLiteral;
       for (var entry in queries.entries) {
-        var queryField = dumbEval(entry.key);
+        var queryField = naiveEval(entry.key);
         if (queryField != NOT_A_CONSTANT) {
           _queryFields.add(queryField.toString());
         }
diff --git a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/directive_metadata_reader.dart b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/directive_metadata_reader.dart
index 324f20c62a..1fd0df7ca6 100644
--- a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/directive_metadata_reader.dart
+++ b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/directive_metadata_reader.dart
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/annotation_matcher.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/interface_matcher.dart';
 import 'package:barback/barback.dart' show AssetId;
 
-import 'dumb_eval.dart';
+import 'naive_eval.dart';
 
 class DirectiveMetadataReader {
   final _DirectiveMetadataVisitor _visitor;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class DirectiveMetadataReader {
 /// `value` pairs to `map`. If `expression` does not evaluate to a [Map],
 /// throws a descriptive [FormatException].
 void _populateMap(Expression expression, Map map, String propertyName) {
-  var evaluated = dumbEval(expression);
+  var evaluated = naiveEval(expression);
   if (evaluated is! Map) {
     throw new FormatException(
         'Angular 2 expects a Map but could not understand the value for '
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void _populateMap(Expression expression, Map map, String propertyName) {
 /// descriptive [FormatException].
 void _populateList(
     Expression expression, List<String> list, String propertyName) {
-  var evaluated = dumbEval(expression);
+  var evaluated = naiveEval(expression);
   if (evaluated is! List) {
     throw new FormatException(
         'Angular 2 expects a List but could not understand the value for '
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ void _populateList(
 /// Evaluates `node` and expects that the result will be a string. If not,
 /// throws a [FormatException].
 String _expressionToString(Expression node, String nodeDescription) {
-  var value = dumbEval(node);
+  var value = naiveEval(node);
   if (value is! String) {
     throw new FormatException(
         'Angular 2 could not understand the value '
diff --git a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/dumb_eval.dart b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/naive_eval.dart
similarity index 83%
rename from modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/dumb_eval.dart
rename to modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/naive_eval.dart
index 85aa57a937..7f73ee338b 100644
--- a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/dumb_eval.dart
+++ b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/common/naive_eval.dart
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-library angular2.transform.common.dumb_eval;
+library angular2.transform.common.naive_eval;
 
 import 'package:analyzer/analyzer.dart';
 
 final _constantEvaluator = new ConstantEvaluator();
 
-/// The value returned if the result of `dumbEval` is not a constant.
+/// The value returned if the result of `naiveEval` is not a constant.
 final NOT_A_CONSTANT = ConstantEvaluator.NOT_A_CONSTANT;
 
 /// Performs a very limited syntactic evaluation of `expr`.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ final NOT_A_CONSTANT = ConstantEvaluator.NOT_A_CONSTANT;
 /// even if that identifier is defined in the same [CompilationUnit].
 ///
 /// Returns the result of evaluation or [NOT_A_CONSTANT] where appropriate.
-dynamic dumbEval(Expression expr) {
+dynamic naiveEval(Expression expr) {
   var val;
   if (expr is SimpleStringLiteral) {
     val = stringLiteralToString(expr);
diff --git a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/inliner_for_test/transformer.dart b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/inliner_for_test/transformer.dart
index fb4cdcb76e..d13e7faef7 100644
--- a/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/inliner_for_test/transformer.dart
+++ b/modules_dart/transform/lib/src/transform/inliner_for_test/transformer.dart
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/ast.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/core/compiler/xhr.dart' show XHR;
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/annotation_matcher.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/asset_reader.dart';
-import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/dumb_eval.dart';
+import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/naive_eval.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/async_string_writer.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/logging.dart';
 import 'package:angular2/src/transform/common/options.dart';
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ class _ViewPropInliner extends RecursiveAstVisitor<Object> {
   }
 
   void _populateStyleUrls(NamedExpression node) {
-    var urls = dumbEval(node.expression);
+    var urls = naiveEval(node.expression);
     if (urls is! List) {
       logger.warning('styleUrls is not a List of Strings (${node.expression})');
       return;
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class _ViewPropInliner extends RecursiveAstVisitor<Object> {
   }
 
   void _populateTemplateUrl(NamedExpression node) {
-    var url = dumbEval(node.expression);
+    var url = naiveEval(node.expression);
     if (url is! String) {
       logger.warning('template url is not a String (${node.expression})');
       return;