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-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "John M. Dlugosz" <dhcgnd702@sneakemail.com> > Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH > > <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> 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 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. > > > > > Sometimes you don't even know the correct part of speech without a > backtracking parser or infinite lookahead in English. > > "The green can > > (continues...) > > > > > > > > > > > be watered after it has been cut." And sometime you can't even do it syntactically: "Time flies like an arrow." "Fruit flies like a banana." -- Mark Biggar mark@biggar.org mark.a.biggar@comcast.net mbiggar@paypal.comThread Previous | Thread Next