HOM - Higher Order Messages

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Apr 19 08:29:09 UTC 2006


Francisco Garau wrote:
>    alice addReport: sally reports all
> 
> Beautiful, isn't it?

Unusual for sure. Beautiful? I don't know. The statement "sally reports 
all" means something entirely different in english than in it does in 
the above (which is largely because the above violates basic english 
language structure making "reports" a noun where in english it can only 
be a verb). If we take it from plain english we might get something like 
"alice adds each of sally's reports" which we might translate as "alice 
add: each_of sally reports" or so but that's not exactly beautiful 
either. Unusual, for sure ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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