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Re: terminology

From Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: terminology
References <terminology-20120420003700@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <580829.126.1334881065985.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcgs4> <jmqjhq$b7b$1@dont-email.me> <verbs-sentences-20120420062533@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
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Date 2012-04-20 07:09 -0300

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On 12-04-20 01:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
[ SNIP ]

>   Obviously, these are all different things: A method is not
>   a method name, and a method is not a method invocation.
> 
>   Some, albeit slight, justification of my term »verb« comes
>   from the JLS 7, which says in 6.1:
> 
> "Method names should be verbs".
> 

It occurs to me that you'd like J, at least for the terminology. All
sentences in J are composed of verbs and nouns and copulas and adverbs
and conjunctions.

AHS
-- 
A fly was very close to being called a "land," cause that's what they do
half the time.
-- Mitch Hedberg

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