Simon Cozens wrote:
> 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.
>
>
i think that's the idea...they have similar meanings, so they should do
similar things. hey it's the English language, i'll leave it up to someone
else to come up with the 7 other ways to prove ownership of a property :)
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