Sounds very natural to me. My only concern is how to expose this to
command authors without having them just ignore it.

Also, I really want to turn my lights on and off with Ubiquity now.

- Blair



On 5/06/09 2:24 AM, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)" wrote:
> 
>> Natanael, I like the idea of registering subverbs (to coin a new (and
>> confusing) phrase) against a set of overlord verbs which semantically
>> go together. I envision this as having different "buckets" to register
>> against... one for search engines, one for "things you can add things
>> to", one for "things you switch on and off" etc.
>>
>> For example, perhaps we could register a "light switch" against
>> "things you switch on and off". You do this once and then you can use
>> "turn off light switch" and "turn on light switch".
>>
>> This would help with internationalization down the line, as well, in
>> case we needed to have different overlord verbs with different
>> argument structures for different different languages, but using the
>> same "buckets".
>>
>> (There must be a better word for this than "buckets"...)
>>
>> mitcho
>> Categories?
> 
> Bindings? Hooks?
> 
> But more importantly, how does this system sound to others?
> 
> 
>>>
> 
> --
> mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> [email protected]
> http://mitcho.com/
> linguist, coder, teacher
> 
> 
> > 

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