callable values
Thomas Jollans
tjol at tjol.eu
Sat Oct 7 09:53:29 EDT 2017
On 07/10/17 01:58, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 03:25 am, Stefan Ram wrote:
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>> FWIW, in my course notes, I have coined a special word for
>> this:
>>
>> A /prelate/ (German: "Prälat") is a callable value (object).
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> In English, prelate is a kind of priest, a senior clergyman and dignitary.
... which is, of course, exactly what „Prälat“ means.
>
> I don't know whether German makes a practice of taking arbitrary verbs and
> adjectives and turning them into nouns, but English does, and so a callable
> object is just called a "callable".
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