On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21:58:50 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH 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 [Perl 6], 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. Given: my $result = $thingie.bark; ... where $thingie may be a Dog or $thingie may be a Tree, is "bark" a noun or a verb? Sure, it's a lousy example, but remember the immutable law of OO didactics: all examples must be terrible. Shapes, colors, and cars, -- c