[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Whipp) writes:
> There is a difference between verbs and noun. Sometimes you don't want
> to associate a verb with an object: you want to associate it with the
> subject:
Verbs are almost always associated with their subject in OO languages,
so I don't see where you're coming from.
> "the cat sat on the mat"
> is that
> the_mat.sat_on(the_cat)
Nope.
> or
> the_cat.sat_on(the_mat)
This one. If you called
$cat->sit_on($mat);
in Perl 5, who would you expect to be sitting on what?
> All of those seem to loose the preposition. Are sat_on and sat_beside
> really completely independent things?
$x.sat_beside($y);
$y.sat_beside($x);
Hey, it's just like English, but with more punctuation! And we know how
well people deal with punctuation!
> Under perl's grammar: yes.
Well, no, as I've just demonstrated.
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