Trey Harris wrote at Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:44:45 +0200: > In a message dated Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michael G Schwern writes: >> Attributes >> Transcending mere objects and classes, Perl 6 introduces adverbs. > > <confused> Attributes are adjectives, not adverbs. Aren't they?
Attributes describe the behaviour of sub routines, I think. As a sub routine is a Doing word - a verb, I would say an attribute can be an adverb. Of course an attribute of a variable is an adjective from this point of view :-) I think it's a possible point of view as there are many natural languages (e.g. German) that doesn't care a lot about the differences of adverbs to adjectives. Cheerio, Janek
