On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:02:27AM -0700, Dave Whipp wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > >> But there *is* some commonality there, to the extent that both are motion. >> This is the kind of thing that spawned this discussion, in fact: if what >> matters is motion, there is no reason *not* to substitute one for the >> other. > > { draw $gun }: makes a big difference whether you're talking to a > gunfighter or an artist (and if the gunfighter is an artist in her days > off...)
Duck typing: if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, then you'd better duck, because the person drawing the gun is probably not an artist. Larry