Re: roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
Paul Hodges wrote: > Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incidently, I think I've caught on to _one_ of the concepts in the > > upcoming object-orientation proposal: linguistically, there's a triad > > of "basic verbs" - namely "be", "do", and "have". If I'm following > > things properly,

Re: roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread chromatic
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:15, Jonathan Lang wrote: > Based on the source material pointed to as your inspiration for roles, I'm > a little confused as to how roles and classes could be unified. From what > I read in the source material, a key point of a role (well, they weren't > actually calling

Re: roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incidently, I think I've caught on to _one_ of the concepts in the > upcoming object-orientation proposal: linguistically, there's a triad > of "basic verbs" - namely "be", "do", and "have". If I'm following > things properly, one could think of an o

roles (Was: enums and bitenums)

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lang
I'm invoking the principle that the only stupid question is the one not asked: Larry Wall wrote: > if indeed properties can be unified with roles (and roles with > classes). Based on the source material pointed to as your inspiration for roles, I'm a little confused as to how roles and classe