On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:58:50 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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 [Perl 6], 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.
Given:
my $result = $thingie.bark;
... where $thingie may be a Dog or $thingie may be a Tree, is "bark" a noun or
a verb?
Sure, it's a lousy example, but remember the immutable law of OO didactics:
all examples must be terrible.
Shapes, colors, and cars,
-- c
