Re: Exegesis2 and the "is" keyword

[Dan Schmidt]

Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| I've been reading "is" as a declarative imperative, something which
| declares a property of something you are creating.  Here it's being
| used to modify the properties of something that already exists, and
| it reads funny to me.  Many properties that one can set at
| declaration time are compile time only, yet this usage might suggest
| to many people that they can be changed at run time.  If you see
| what I mean.

Clearly we need 'becomes' and 'gets' for mutable properties, in
addition to 'is' and 'has' for constant ones.

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