On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:57:49 -0800, Aaron Brady wrote: > Natural language doesn't have the equivalent of parentheses,
I take it you mean natural language doesn't have the equivalent of parentheses for *calling*, since NLs can (and do) use parentheses for grouping -- as well as various conventions regarding dashes -- terms together. I'm not aware of any NL that uses some sort of calling convention, but it isn't impossible. Most sentences have an object, a subject and a verb, just like OO method calls. So logically: "Peter ate the sandwich" is equivalent to: Peter.eat(sandwich) modulo complications due to tenses and similar. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
