Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:30:07PM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
>       - A while ago, someone suggested that the word 'has' be an alias
> for 'is', so that when you roll your own properties, you could write
> more-grammatically-correct statements such as "my $var has
> Colors(3)".  Since 'are' is being considered as a synonym, is there a
> possibility that 'has' will make it too?

It would be disappointing if a substantial proportion of the built-in
keywords were merely syntactic sugar for each other. is|are|has|: seem
like far too many ways to express exactly the same concept.

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