From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: package child question
Date: 2000/02/10
Date: 2000-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000Feb10.072710.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38A20732.F8119EBB@quadruscorp.com
In article <38A20732.F8119EBB@quadruscorp.com>, "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> writes:
> Ehud Lamm wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robert A Duff wrote:
>>
>> |The RM says "mention in a with clause", but that's too long, so people
>> |say "to with, or not to with". ;-)
>> |
>>
>> But "to use, or not to use" - that is the question!
>>
> Or how about "instantiate" or "instantiation"? Ada has definitely
> twisted a few English language words around. One wonders if Gen.
> Alexander Haig was consulted on any of this, seeing as he was famous for
> turning nouns into verbs, etc.
A more concise statement of:
> turning nouns into verbs
is:
verbing a noun
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-07 0:00 package child question Georg Bauhaus
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Steve Folly
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Steve Folly
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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2000-02-08 0:00 Christoph Grein
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