Is the going semantic to carry a relation: spoon.bend() or johnson.bend( spoon ) ? How to phrase this. How do -you- do it? Weird. Because spoon.bend() is a misnomer; construed to mean spoon.getsbent(). More in the predicate vs. controller category. Haven't got model-view-controller yet but I know the term.
On 5/16/07, Aaron Brady <castironpi@comcast.net> wrote:
Is the going semantic to carry a relation:
Do you just mean, "What is the most common idiom?" I'll answer on that assumption, though if I'm correct, comp.lang.python would be the more appropriate list.
spoon.bend()
Tell the spoon to bend itself. There are probably other things you could tell the spoon, but no reason to believe that other objects bend.
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johnson.bend( spoon ) ?
Tell Johnson to bend a spoon. You could have told him to bend a knife instead. -jJ
Jim Jewett wrote:
or uri_geller.bend(spoon) which doesn't actually bend the spoon, but makes the rest of the program think it has been. :-) More seriously, you can't say that one of these is better than the other out of context. It depends on how the rest of the program is designed. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
On 5/16/07, Aaron Brady <castironpi@comcast.net> wrote:
Is the going semantic to carry a relation:
Do you just mean, "What is the most common idiom?" I'll answer on that assumption, though if I'm correct, comp.lang.python would be the more appropriate list.
spoon.bend()
Tell the spoon to bend itself. There are probably other things you could tell the spoon, but no reason to believe that other objects bend.
or
johnson.bend( spoon ) ?
Tell Johnson to bend a spoon. You could have told him to bend a knife instead. -jJ
Jim Jewett wrote:
or uri_geller.bend(spoon) which doesn't actually bend the spoon, but makes the rest of the program think it has been. :-) More seriously, you can't say that one of these is better than the other out of context. It depends on how the rest of the program is designed. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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