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Re: terminology

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On 12-04-20 01:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
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>   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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    Re: terminology Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-20 08:05 -0700
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    Re: "static context" Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-04-21 04:15 -0700

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