> Well Ike, there are only 12 notes (words) in western music. Hell of a > language where almost all the meaning is in the timber, cadence and > inflection.
There is that. Although I was thinking more particularly about sheet music and things like timing, how 4/4 makes the meaning of the placement of the notes in the rest of the stanza different than 2/2 -- you'll have to forgive me if I'm butchering the lingo, it's been years since I've played a piano. ;) But spoken language is similar in that context can often dramatically change the interpretation of the individual words. And we do the same thing again in programming -- polymorphism springs to mind. shape.draw() circle.draw() square.draw() -- s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism http://www.autlabs.com ph: 817.385.0301 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327633 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
