From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T14:24:37+09:00
Subject: Re: was Re: turning modules into classes

Hi,

> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:30 AM

> At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0900,
> Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> > > Now, did any feature of Japanese get into Ruby?
> > 
> > <joke>Regular expression syntax.
> 
> No, rather it's come from Klingon or the like.

But both Klingon and Japanese are agglutinative
language.

> Japanese adopts noun-verb order like Ruby.

OT: Ordering is less important in agglutinative language.


When matz introduce Japanese into Ruby in the future,
it should have honorific methods.

class Person
  attr_accessor :rank
  def ageru(them)	# ageru == give
    ...
  end
  honorific_alias(:sashiageru, :ageru) {
    assert_true(self.rank > caller.rank)
  }
end

> > </joke>

Regards,
// NaHi