At 10:49 AM 05-04-2001 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>From: Buddha Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > At 03:00 PM 05-04-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > >On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > > > And btw . . .  Wouldn't
> > > >
> > > >       $thing has property
> > > >
> > > > make more sense than
> > > >
> > > >       $thing is property
> > >
> > >"$foo has true" doesn't flow as well as "$foo is true".  Dunno quite
> > >what the other expected uses are.
> >
>[...]
> >
> >    my Netfile $page has url("http://www.perl.com/";) is constant;
>
>Maybe it is just my interpretation of Damian's OO-Perl book... but:
>
>is  => typing, inheritance, etc.
>has => composition, aggregation, etc.

True, but those are basic OO concepts, which don't neatly apply to 
property-lists (a very old Lisp concept that Perl6 is adopting).



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