On May 1, 2008, at 1:30 , Jon Lang wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
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On May 1, 2008, at 0:53 , chromatic wrote:
correctness sense. Sadly, both trees and dogs bark.)
Hm, no. One's a noun, the other's a verb. Given the linguistic
orientation of Perl6, it seems a bit strange that the syntax for
both is the
same: while accessors and mutators are *implemented* as verbs,
they should
*look* like nouns.
In defense of chromatic's point, both people and syrup run.
But there *is* some commonality there, to the extent that both are
motion. This is the kind of thing that spawned this discussion, in
fact: if what matters is motion, there is no reason *not* to
substitute one for the other.
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