At 10:49 AM 05-04-2001 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote: >From: Buddha Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > At 03:00 PM 05-04-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > >On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0400, John Porter wrote: > > > > And btw . . . Wouldn't > > > > > > > > $thing has property > > > > > > > > make more sense than > > > > > > > > $thing is property > > > > > >"$foo has true" doesn't flow as well as "$foo is true". Dunno quite > > >what the other expected uses are. > > >[...] > > > > my Netfile $page has url("http://www.perl.com/") is constant; > >Maybe it is just my interpretation of Damian's OO-Perl book... but: > >is => typing, inheritance, etc. >has => composition, aggregation, etc. True, but those are basic OO concepts, which don't neatly apply to property-lists (a very old Lisp concept that Perl6 is adopting).