From: Dean Wampler <deanwampler@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T06:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Fluent programming in Ruby

------=_Part_6688_14669529.1193435358429
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

On 10/26/07, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> At 14:01 07/10/26, David Flanagan wrote:
>
> >With this change, code like this works:
> >
> >puts "hello"
> >      .upcase
> >      .reverse
> >      .slice(0)   #  => prints "O"
>
> This looks great. It seems to confirm my feeling that part
> of the reason for such method chaining is some similarity with
> Japanese grammar, where the verb comes at the end of a sentence,
> and a subsentence (with a verb at the end) can be followed by
> further verbs, or a verb can be modified by further verbs.
>
> ...
>
> Regards,    Martin.
>
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp


Wow. A Japanese friend told me just this week that Japanese is inflected.
Word order doesn't matter; each word has a suffix to indicate it's "role" in
the sentence. Maybe he meant "partially inflected" or I missed that bit.

dean
-- 
Dean Wampler
http://www.objectmentor.com
http://www.aspectprogramming.com
http://aquarium.rubyforge.org
http://www.contract4j.org

------=_Part_6688_14669529.1193435358429
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Duerst</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp">duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 14:01 07/10/26, David Flanagan wrote:<br><br>&gt;With this change, code like this works:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;puts &quot;hello&quot;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.upcase<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.reverse<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;.slice(0)&nbsp;&nbsp; #&nbsp;&nbsp;=&gt; prints &quot;O&quot;
<br><br>This looks great. It seems to confirm my feeling that part<br>of the reason for such method chaining is some similarity with<br>Japanese grammar, where the verb comes at the end of a sentence,<br>and a subsentence (with a verb at the end) can be followed by
<br>further verbs, or a verb can be modified by further verbs.<br><br>...<br><br>Regards,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Martin.<br><br><br>#-#-#&nbsp;&nbsp;Martin J. Du&quot;rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University<br>#-#-#&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp">
http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mailto:<a href="mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp">duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp</a></blockquote><div><br>Wow. A Japanese friend told me just this week that Japanese is inflected. Word order doesn&#39;t matter; each word has a suffix to indicate it&#39;s &quot;role&quot; in the sentence. Maybe he meant &quot;partially inflected&quot; or I missed that bit.
<br></div><br></div>dean<br>-- <br>Dean Wampler<br><a href="http://www.objectmentor.com">http://www.objectmentor.com</a><br><a href="http://www.aspectprogramming.com">http://www.aspectprogramming.com</a><br><a href="http://aquarium.rubyforge.org">
http://aquarium.rubyforge.org</a><br><a href="http://www.contract4j.org">http://www.contract4j.org</a>

------=_Part_6688_14669529.1193435358429--